HARRER,H., Bilder aus Tibet, Keulen 2007. Hardcover 21 x 29 cm. 207 pag. met ruim 100 zwart-wit foto's.

MEYER, K., In the shadows of the Himalaya. Tibet-Bhuthan-Nepal-Sikkim. A photographic record by John Claude White 1883-1908,  Ahmedabad, India, 2005. Hardcover, 28 x 24cm. 192 pag. met 113 sepia en duotone foto's, 6 kaarten.

CONTENT: Main chapters: Biography Nepal 1883-1884 Sikkim 1889-1908 Tibet 1903-1904 Bhutan 1905-1908 Bibliography

PHOTOGRAPHER: Monography John Claude White

HARRIS,C.TSERING SHAKYA & EDWARDS,E., Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital 1936-1947, Chicago 2003. Softcover 21 x 28 cm. 150 pag. met ca. 150 afb. waarvan 30 in kleur.

CONTENT:

During the 1930s and 1940s the British cultivated close political and social relations with members of the Tibetan elite and established a Mission in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. Seeing Lhasa reveals the way in which the city of Lhasa, its palaces, monasteries and mansions, became the backdrop for a social world in which the British and Tibetans interacted.

Main chapters:

Full details of all the Tibetan photographic collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum of:

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The Newark Museum, Tibet  A hidden world 1905-1935, San Francisco 1996. A book of Postcards with 30 postcards 12 x 17,5 cm.

CONTENT: 30 postcards

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Suydam Cutting, C. Shelton, A.L. Macleod, R.A. Griebow, M.G. Ovshe Norzunov

LHALUNGPA, L.P. Tibet , the Sacred Realm. photographs 1880-1950, New York 1983. Softcover, oblong. 160 pag., ca. 140 zwart-wit foto's. 

CONTENT: Chronicle Photographs(full page) Bibliography

PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bacot, J. David-Neel, A. Brooke Dolan II,  capt. Harrer, H. Hedin, S.A. Johnston, R.F. & Hoffmann Sonam Wangfel Laden-la Noel, J. capt. D'Orleans, Prins Henry Rock, J.F.C. Roerich, G.N. Shelton, A.L. Sheriff, G. maj. Spencer-Chapman, F. left.-col. Taylor, sir G. Tolstoy, I. left.-col. Tsybikoff, G.Ts. Weir, J. left. Col. & Weir, R. White, C.J. Wollaston, A.F.R.

ENGELHARDT, I, Tibet 1938-1939  Photographs from the Ernst Schäfer Expedition to Tibet, Chicago 2007. Hardcover 21,5 x 25 cm. 280 pag met 150 zwart-wit foto's.

CONTENT:

This volume presents 150 photographs[of 17.000 negatives in the Bundesarchiv] most published here for the first time, of the Schäfer Expedition. In 1938, the German biologist Ernst Schäfer led a scientific expedition to Tibet. His team of scientists was able to record Tibetan life and culture with a level of detail previously unachieved by other Europeans. The photographs in this volume are one part of that record, documenting a vibrant traditional society in the early stages of its encounter with modernity. The Tibetans in the photographs, from high aristocrat to humble peasant, are now dead. Many of the temples and buildings where they worshipped, worked, and lived have been destroyed. This volume of photographs, and the essays that accompany them, portray a Tibet that existed not so long ago, but that has since become a memory.

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CLARKE,J.[Foreword by the Dalai Lama], Tibet Caught in Time, Reading 1997. Hardcover, 22 x 27 cm. 150 pag.met 158 zwart-wit foto's. Oude foto's van Tibet.

"Tibet is famed for its majestic beauty, and also for its ongoing struggle for cultural survival. This collection of photographs from the British Library, taken by two British diplomats in the early twentieth century, shows traditional Tibetan culture before Chinese rule was imposed. In Lhasa, a noble family take a picnic in a park, the women's elaborate head-dresses adorned with pearls. Travelling folk-opera singers pose in costumes and masks. John Claude White was Political Officer in Sikkim for nearly twenty years, and photographed extensively in the border regions of Tibet. The earliest photographs in this volume are his - taken when he joined the British military expedition to Lhasa in 1904. His pictures of mountains and glaciers give a geographical context for his more intimate shots of towns and people. White was succeeded as Political Officer in 1908 by Sir Charles Bell. Bell became a good friend of the thirteenth Dalai Lama when he fled to India to escape the Chinese pressure in Lhasa and this friendship later afforded him privileged access to Tibetan society during two extended visits to the capital at the invitation of the Dalai Lama in 1921 and 1933. His photographs reveal an ancient and complex civilization, dominated by the power of monastic religion. Bell, who spoke Tibetan fluently, went on to publish a wide range of scholarly titles on Tibetan culture and campaigned for its independence. His photographs and diaries are held in British Library Oriental and India Office Collections."

CABOT,M.H., Vanished kingdoms. A woman explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925. Hardback, oblong.190 pag. met veel zwart-wit foto's en een paar in kleur.

They documented tribes people and sublime desert landscapes, and, most remarkably, were allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, including Choni, Kumbum and Labrang. Several dozen rare, hand-painted lantern slides survived and are reproduced here in color.
The photographs from the Wulsin Expedition, are now in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.

(see also: AlLONSO, M.E.ed. China's inner frontier Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923. Cambridge, 1979).