1997, 1st edition. 198 pp, 100+ color photos. A superb photo essay on the people, traditions, culture and scenery of Tibet. Born in Mihara, Japan, in 1946, Kazuyoshi Nomachi graduated from Kochi Prefectural Technical School and went to study photography under Takashi Kijima before becoming a freelance photographer in 1971. Nomachi is known for his exhaustive research and field work, and his works have been published in many magazines, both internationally and in Japan.
This book is the product of five journeys to Tibet by photographer and author Kazuyoshi Nomachi. His work captures the awesome landscape of this mountain nation, the life and surviving culture of its people and the architecture of its temples, shrines and monasteries. Tibet has, over the years, proved unequal to the onslaught of a different set of values from the outside world. By portraying the surviving reality of a threatened Buddhist world peculiar to its own setting, this book records the heritage of a culture and civilization which may soon be lost forever. Large-format Hardcover, Near Fine or Fine condition with dust jacket.
