Repository Contact
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
National Museum of Asian Art Archives
Washington, D.C. 20013
AVRreference@si.edu
Art Perry Photographs of Tibet
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At A Glance
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Creator
Perry, Art, Mr. -
Dates
undated -
Physical Description
30 Gelatin silver prints (b&w, -- cm. x -- cm.) -
Collection ID
FSA.A2000.03 -
EDAN ID
ead_collection:sova-fsa-a2000-03
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Scope and Contents
Images taken by Canadian writer and photographer Art Perry to document Tibetans, including those in exile communities in India and Nepal. Mostly depicted are religious figures such as monks and pilgrims in residencse that include Sera Monastery. -
Biographical / Historical
Art Perry is best known for his publication The Tibetans: Photographs - the result of five years travel throughout Himalayan Buddhist and nomadic communities. Perry has paralleled this photographing and writing about oppressed world communities with his ongoing religious belief in and valuing of the holiness within outsider culture... culture that goes counter to the mainstream. -
Local Numbers
FSA A2000.03 -
Creator
Perry, Art, Mr. -
Place
Tibet -
Archival Repository
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives -
Type
Collection descriptionsArchival materialsGelatin silver printsPhotographic prints -
Citation
Art Perry Photographs of Tibet. FSA.A2000.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. -
Rights
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository. -
Genre/Form
Photographic prints -
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
