Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Art Perry Photographs of Tibet

Summary

Collection ID:
FSA.A2000.03
Creators:
Perry, Art, Mr.
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
30 Gelatin silver prints
b&w
-- cm. x -- cm.
Repository:

Scope and Contents

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

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.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Preferred Citation
Art Perry Photographs of Tibet. FSA.A2000.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
FSA A2000.03


Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
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