Title & Author:

Seeing Lhasa : British depictions of the Tibetan capital, 1936-1947 / edited by Clare Harris & Tsering Shakya.

Publication:

Chicago : Serindia, 2003.

Description:

vii, 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing Lhasa: British depictions of the Tibetan capital, 1936-1947 organized by the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK (7 September 2003-November 2004) and the tenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (Oxford, 6-12th September 2003)"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index.
Seeing Lhasa : British photographic and filmic engagement with Tibet, 1936-1947 / Clare Harris -- Cities and thrones and powers : the British and the Tibetans in Lhasa, 1936-1947 / Tsering Shakya -- Some thoughts on photographs as history / Elizabeth Edwards -- Tibetan photographic collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum / (compiled by Claire Freeman, Krystyna Cech and Philip Grover). Charles Bell ; Frederick Spencer Chapman ; Hugh Richardson ; Evan Nepean ; Harry Staunton ; Macdonald Collection.

Summary:

Recent donations to the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK, of vintage photos and films by British travelers to Tibet, prompted an exhibit and this book; which discusses the unique visual record of Tibet's capital city in a bygone era, complemented by watercolors by an Indian artist, of the 1940 installation of the 14th Dalai Lama.

ISBN:

1932476040 (pbk.)
9781932476040 (pbk.)

Subject:

Pitt Rivers Museum Photograph collections.
Pitt Rivers Museum Exhibitions.
Pitt Rivers Museum
British China Lhasa History 20th century Historiography Exhibitions.
Photography in anthropology China Lhasa History 20th century Exhibitions.
Photography in historiography.
Tibetans Pictorial works.
Britanniques Chine Lhassa Histoire 20e siècle Historiographie Expositions.
Photographie en anthropologie Chine Lhassa Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Photographie en historiographie.
Tibétains Ouvrages illustrés.
15.75 history of Asia.
British Historiography
Historiography
Photograph collections
Photography in anthropology
Tibetans
Lhasa (China) History 20th century Historiography Exhibitions.
Lhasa (China) Pictorial works.
China Lhasa
5.310.
4.240.
1936-1947

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
facsimiles (reproductions)
Facsimiles
Exhibition catalogs
History
Pictorial works
Pictorial works (form)
Fac-similés.

Added entries:

Harris, Clare.
Tsering Shakya.
Pitt Rivers Museum.
International Association for Tibetan Studies. Seminar (10th : 2003 : Oxford, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238119
Call No.: BIB 167975
Status: Available