The Art of God [Hardcover]

Ric Ergenbright (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1999

Value priced!
2000 Gold Medallion Award winner!
Through stunning nature photography, this gorgeous gift book captures God's expression of his character in the created world. Ric's award-winning photographic talent is combined with Scripture and devotional thoughts to move both the heart and the mind. Included with the full-color photographs is information about the various locations, natural formations, and elements of the scenes.
Ric Ergenbright's photography appears regularly in major magazines, books, and ads. More than 60 calendars of his images have been published, and his work has been the subject of three television shows. He is a winner of the Lowell Thomas Award for outstanding travel photography, and is among the small number of contemporary photographers represented in "Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic," now touring the world.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Renowned landscape photographer Ric Ergenbright here turns his attention to the holiness reflected in the beauty of the natural world. Combining scriptural passages with photographic and scientific observations relating to the elements of nature, Ergenbright uses his dramatic, often astonishing photographs as a testament to the power and perfection of God. Though he recognizes that "if all Scripture were lost, we could still know something of [God's] character by carefully studying the works of his hands," Ergenbright uses the book to emphasize how God's Word can illuminate the world around us. This beautiful coffee-table book is a wonderful addition to any nature-lover's collection, and the detailed notes throughout are an education to any aspiring photographer.

From the Author

       No human work can adequately describe or illustrate the work of God, and this book is certainly not an attempt to do so. It is instead a meager adjunct to the topic it addresses--the supreme artistry of God in creation. As such, its purpose is not to define the art of God or to limit it by the narrow subject matter and personal vision of my photography, but to encourage you to experience it firsthand and to see God's majesty through what He has made. Consider this, then, as an abbreviated catalog, spotlighting a few selected pieces from the greatest art exhibit in the world.  Indeed, the world is the exhibit, and everything in it is the art of God.

       May this book inspire you to look at the splendor of God's creation through new eyes and praise Him for the great things He has done.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0842318984
• ISBN-13: 978-0842318983
• Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 11.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Biography

Born and raised in Southern California, Ric Ergenbright grew up in the shadow of his father's photographic travel company, Thru The Lens Tours -- a business that he eventually took over upon returning home from 3 years at the U.S. Army Pictorial Center in Germany.

Operating America's largest photographic travel program for the next fourteen years, Ric gained a deep and practical knowledge of the world, and built an extensive library of high-quality images that enabled his later success in stock photography. Selling Thru The Lens Tours in 1983, Ric and his wife, Jill, moved to Central Oregon in search of a better location to raise their three daughters, and to photograph the American West. There they built a competitive stock photo business based on Ric's existing international coverage, while he steadily added new material from travel assignments and large-format landscape shoots across America.

One national and two regional TV shows have been produced about Ric's work, and an exhibit of his images from pre-war Afghanistan toured the U.S. Senate in 1986. He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nature's Best Photography Award, Pictures of the Year Award, and Lowell Thomas Award, and is one of the few contemporary photographers represented in the book and exhibit, Odyssey: The Art of Photography at National Geographic. His best-selling book, The Art of God: The Heavens & The Earth, won the ECPA Gold Medallion Award for the best Christian gift book of 2000, and is now in its sixth printing. Its sequel, The Image of God: The Glory of Man, was the 2005 runner-up, and his 2003 title, Think About These Things, also won the Gold. Ric is currently working on a major new title, Creation's Hope, for 2010 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creation through the Lens of the Bible, December 4, 1999

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Daniel J. Dillard (Bend, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of God (Hardcover)

If there were no words in Ric's book, his breathtakingly beautiful photographs would speak eloquently enough of the glory of our Creator. Ric's prose artistry, however, helps the reader really "see" what he or she is looking at. You'll be treated to solid, well-thought out and Scripturally grounded, practical, and devotional theology, and you'll grow in the knowledge of the Divine Artist!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ...The Skies proclaim the work of His hands -- Psalm 19, October 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Art of God (Hardcover)

Discovered this book this week. Can't speak too highly of it.

A large and profoundly beautiful book. A soul-stirring masterpiece. I have never seen anything quite like it.

God reached out and changed the heart of this gifted photographer. This magnificent marriage of landscape and scripture is the result. The narrative is soothing, deep and artfully crafted.

God is glorified here in these pages as His Creation is showcased thru the lens of biblical Christianity.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE ART OF GOD - Ric Ergenbright, October 25, 1999

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KC Remington "book lover" (Micanopy, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of God (Hardcover)

"Thoreau said, "Read the best books first," and were he alive today I think he would list "THE ART OF GOD" as one of those books; and with it Ric Ergenbright can claim his position as one of the world's great landscape photographers: Ansel Adams would surely welcome him into the "f/64 Club" in a heartbeat. But equal to the stunning photography is the almost autobiographical prose which seamlessly equates the words of the Scriptures to its beautiful imagery. If you can dream of a world you've never seen before, "THE ART OF GOD" will open the door; and the real beauty is, one the book speaks to on every page, its right here on Earth. "THE ART OF GOD" is an absolute masterpiece."