Monks of Dust
Subtitle: The Holy Men of Mount Athos
Contributors: Barry Unsworth (Introduction)
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: May 18, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780847823307
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Photoessays & Documentaries; Monks; Photography; Photo Essays; Greece; Institutions & Organizations; Subjects & Themes - Portraits; Photography / General; Photography / History; General; Mount Athos; Pictorial works
Description: "During a rarely granted artistic residency on the holy Greek peninsula Mount Athos, Xavier Zimbardo discovered in an abandoned monastery hundreds of deteriorating photographs of Russian monks who were in residence there prior to returning to their home country to fight against the Bolsheviks in 1917.

Zimbardo photographed a selection of these images on site, never moving them from where he found them; the result is a visually arresting collection of seventy-five intimate portraits that evoke the chasm between absence and presence, physicality and spirituality, sensuality and disintegration."--BOOK JACKET.