Art Perry Photographs of Tibet
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2000.03
name: label: Creator
content: Perry, Art, Mr.
place: label: Place
content: Tibet
creator: label: Creator
content: Perry, Art, Mr.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art Perry is best known for his publication The Tibetans: Photographs - the result of five years travel throughout Himalayan Buddhist and nomadic communities.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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 30 Gelatin silver prints (b&w, -- cm. x -- cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2000.03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.