Notes from the Photographer
The Temples of Cambodia are among the most complex and imposing man-made edifices in the world. This book allows the reader to explore these extraordinary sites through remarkable photographs and literary narrative by a leading Khmer cultural historian. Beginning with the modest brick structures of the seventh and eighth centuries, the temples became increasingly ambitious, setting the stage for the apex of the Khmer empire and with it, the world-reknowned Angkor Wat.
Barry Brukoff's splendid photographs not only record temples that have been destroyed but also portrays a uniquely intimate insight into the Cambodian idiom, and with Helen Ibbitson Jessup's expert story-telling, allow readers to penetrate to the heart of the temples' mystery.
Barry Brukoff is an award-winning photographer whose books include The Enigma of Stonehenge, Morocco, and Greece: Land of Light. He has been photographing the temples of Cambodia since 1963. Helen Ibbitson Jessup is the author of Art and Architecture of Cambodia and Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory, and was curator of the related exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Helen Ibbitson Jessup is the author of Art and Architecture of Cambodia and Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory, and was curator of the related exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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