Selection of Photographs from 9 volumes edition for private distribution and is not available for sale.
This selection includes photos of the Mogao Grottos and Yulin Grottos shot in the 1940s.
First Limited Edition, 2021 by the Trustees of Princeton University In the Nation's Service and the Service of Humanity
The booklet with selection of over 30 Photographs: 1,000 copies of this booklet have been printed for private distribution by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University on the occasion of the publication of Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves, in 9 volumes.
Design by Binocular, New York. Lakepaper Blocker 135 gsm by Gmund, Tegernsee, Germany.
Printing and tritone separations by Trifolio, Verona, Italy.Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves Dora C. Y. Ching, editor, Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves. Princeton, NJ: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, and Princeton University Press, 2021. 9 vols. 3,392 tritone, 106 color, and 95 b/w illustrations. 78 years ago, James Lo ??? (1902-1987), a photographer with the Central News Agency based in the wartime capital of Chongqing, descended upon the renowned but little understood caves at Dunhuang and Yulin with three cameras: a large 6x8 field camera, a 4x5 Speed Graflex, and a 35mm Leica. 18 months later, Lo and his wife, Lucy (b.1920), left with 2,567 negatives in varying formats. This was the first professional photographic expedition to the Mogao Caves focusing on wall painting and sculpture. Lo paid special attention to the site 's physical state, its artistic materiality, and the relationship between living rock and wooden architectural elements. The archive has been kept in Princeton University for almost 80 years, and was only recently published in the form of a 9-volume book collection edited by Dora Ching.In order to ensure the correct location of each cave in each picture and the age of each wall painting, the compilation of the book took 13 years, assisted by many academic agencies and a string of authorities in Dunhuang Studies and East Asian Studies.

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