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About the Book

"A Pause on the Path" is a travel diary in which photographs and expressionistic narrative draw the reader into an experience of village and monastic life in Buddhist Ladakh. Ronald Silvers tells of his journey during three summers in which he discovers a world that is unfamiliar, but never strange. Traveling through the countryside of this Tibetan plateau, encountering daily family life, witnessing the creating and celebration of a ceremonial mandala, he passed into a liminal region, between the place of an outsider and that of a participant. Silvers' photography forced him to confront and understand the significance of the Ladakhi gaze: a look of unprotected and unjudging receptiveness in the faces of both children and adults. Such moments of quietness and suspended activity such pauses became a signal to the author that he had entered a region where photography could become a medium of the same receptivity.In the stillness of the pause, he lost all meaning of symbolic form and entered into an awareness of the presocial bonding of common human existence with the people of Ladakh. Silvers' compelling photographs and poetic text achieve his intent as a photographer/writer: 'not so much to inform and explain but most of all to arouse longing for a world the reader has never inhabited but has always known'. Author note: Ronald Silvers is on the faculty of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, and the School of Graduate Studies of the University of Toronto.

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"This is a fascinating and beautiful study. The images are extraordinary, stunning, exquisite black and white photographs, each in itself a study. It is about us as journeyers through a world which we inhabit and which we find other people with different ways also inhabiting. Silvers has done an incredible job showing the possibilities of such journeys into worlds-never losing oneself totally--yet feeling the possibilities of achieving such losses and recapturings. The book represents a refreshing, innovative, and original mode for expressing/presenting visual images and text. Its phenomenological perspective is reflexive and reflective, subtle and not didactic. This fine book is an important and significant addition to visual studies." --George Psathas, Boston University "A record of the author's trips to a Buddhist village in Tibet between 1983 and 1985, this collection of black-and-white photographs and descriptive prose was assembled to 'provide a sense of the movement of a journey,' capturing 'an arrested movement between / a gesture completed and a gesture to come.' " --Publishers Weekly


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780877225591
  • Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
  • Height: 250 mm
  • No of Pages: 1
  • Weight: 666 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0877225591
  • Publisher Date: 10 Nov 1988
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 150 mm


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