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  • Burke + Norfolk

    Burke + Norfolk: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN BY JOHN BURKE AND SIMON NORFOLK
    Author: Paul Lowe, David Campbell
    Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (2011)
    Binding: Hardcover, 168 pages

    An exceptional then-and-now investigation, suffused in the tragedy of two Afghan wars. Simon Norfolk, a modern war photographer, echoes Burke's work in a profound and captivating way as he probes the artifacts of today's conflict with Burke's 1878-80 Afghan war album by his side. There is nothing else quite like it in photography.Read more

  • Journal of a Tour Through Spiti to the Frontier of Chinese Thibet

    Spiti

    Philip Henry Egerton

    Once again Hugh Ashley Rayner has done a great service to Raj photography by reprinting this important 1864 photographic volume by a British administrator. Philip Henry Egerton was traveling to an even more obscure area in the Himalayas at the same time as Samuel Bourne. While his photographs are not as impressive, the narrative and stories are richer.Read more

  • Curfewed Night

    Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland
    Author: Basharat Peer
    Publisher: Scribner (2010)
    Binding: Hardcover, 240 pages

    After seeing Basharat Peer read from this book during a recent academic event at Stanford University, getting it and reading the whole thing was inevitable. And very rewarding: a powerful, well-written, insightful narrative of how we got to today's Kashmir crisis from someone who grew up in a village as it all unfolded.Read more

  • Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road

    Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road
    Author: Anne Lacoste
    Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum (2010)
    Binding: Hardcover, 208 pages

    A beautifully printed book of Asian images by one of the greatest early international photographers, Felice Beato. Produced in connection with the exhibition of Beato's work at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the book includes many more of his Indian images than the exhibition.Read more

  • Nine Lives

    Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
    Author: William Dalrymple
    Publisher: Knopf (2010)
    Binding: Hardcover, 304 pages

    Another masterful book by William Dalrymple. This time he examines the lives of extraordinary people who have chosen the path of extreme religious devotion. The people are amazing, the stories intense celebrations of the human spirit that each life represents.Read more

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  • From Kashmir to Kabul

    From Kashmir to Kabul: The Photographs of Burke and Baker, 1860-1900
    Author: Omar A. Khan
    Publisher: Prestel Publishing (2002)
    Binding: Hardcover, 208 pages

    As international events draw attention to the people and landscapes of Afghanistan and Pakistan, images of these war-torn countries are becoming increasingly familiar. The harsh beauty of the region has been luring photographers since the Victorian age, the most famous of whom were William Baker and John Burke. Their photographs of the "Great Game" - a phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling for the power struggles of British and Russian imperialism - were an inspiration to the writer, and remain some of the most poignant images of the British Empire.Read more