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The Pitt Rivers Museum holds an extraordinarily rich collection of over 4000 historical photographs of Tibet taken by British colonial photographers between 1908 and 1950.
The Tibet Visual History Online pilot website currently presents only a small proportion of the photographs in the collections. It aims to explore ways of delivering a fully searchable, flexible, interactive and multi-layered website.
We hope that users will not only access the resource but also add to
it, and see the website not only as a source of pictures but as a
dialogue between various images. In order to stimulate new approaches,
it will encourage users to develop their own 'Album' research collections of images from within the resource and putting them together in new narratives.
In many instances, these photographs constitute the only surviving
record of aspects of Tibetan culture now lost through the political and
cultural transformation of the region, most notably in the latter half
of the twentieth century. Consequently, they may prove to be useful for
Tibetans as a means of reconstructing, maintaining and engaging with
their own histories and identities, both in the Tibetan Autonomous
Region and diaspora. Also, these photographs are an excellent source of
information (beyond the textual record) for scholarship on various
aspects of Tibetan culture and history.
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© Pitt Rivers Museum, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PP
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