Himalaya

Land of the Snow Lion

By (author) Andrea Baldeck

Book cover: Himalaya

Extent: 244 pages

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum

Subjects: Art & Art History, Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2008)

ISBN: 9781934536094

11.54 x 11.73 inches

Price: $34.95

In stock

The Himalaya, Asia’s jagged backbone, lured photographer Andrea Baldeck on four journeys covering thousands of miles from northern India to western China, the distillation of which is Himalaya: Land of the Snow Lion. This volume opens a window onto an ancient enduring culture, bound by shared ethnicity and religion and challenged by daunting geography. Portraits, landscapes, architecture, and still-life images convey the texture and rhythm of this mountain life, which is ever more threatened by the forces of geopolitics, migration, and modernization. In a series of succinct essays accompanying the images, the artist invites the viewer to imagine aspects of life and travel in a region where a remote, starkly beautiful environment test and tempers all who call it home.

  • By (author) Andrea Baldeck