Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. The 65 striking photos collected here document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet. All of Gere's profits from this book will be donated to Tibetan charities. 64 quadratone illustrations.
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Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. The 65 striking photos collected here document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet. All of Gere's profits from this book will be donated to Tibetan charities. 64 quadratone illustrations.
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Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. 143 p. Some stains to boards. Upper corner on back bumped which has caused upper page corners through most of book to have bends. Smudges to fore text edge. Inscribed and signed by author on title page. Book otherwise clean and unmarked with tight binding.
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Used-Good. Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. Pilgrim will change that. The sixty-five striking photographs collected in this book document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet--the work of a mature artist exploring subject matter that is close to his heart. The images--which capture the rarely glimpsed rites and shrines of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the remote peoples and landscapes of central Asia--are hushed and meditative, reflecting Gere's spiritual journey as much as his terrestrial wanderings. The book includes a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an introduction by Gere, and a poem by Patti Smith that accompanies the portfolio. Reproduced on luxurious uncoated stock in an oversized format, the photographs in Pilgrim bring to life an ancient and spirituality vital world--and share Gere's very personal vision. Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. The 65 striking photos collected here document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet. All of Gere's profits from this book will be donated to Tibetan charities. 64 quadratone illustrations. book has scuff marks on front and back of cover, inside pages in excellent condition.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. (USA) Stated first edition, No markings light scuff mark to back cover, small chip to the edge of the photo pastedown to the front cover, about Very Good; no dust jacket as published. Square red hardcover, [144]pp, B&W photos. Gere presents his journey through India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet through a collection of sixty-five photographs, complete with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. (4.5 JM HOQ 100/0.
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Illustrated by Richard Gere. Near Fine. 0821223224. Maroon cloth cover has a very lightly sunned strip along foredge. There are several light scuff/rubbed marks on the cover. No ownership or other marks in book.; Photographs; 13.20 X 11.80 X 0.90 inches; 144 pages.
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Photographs by Richard Gere. Fine. No Jacket as Issued. Book First Edition stated on colophon page; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; introductory text by Richard Gere and preface by the Dalai Lama; also contains a black and white map of Tibet and surrounding countries and an original poem by Patti Smith; most of the book, however, is given over to sixty-five thoughtful photographs of Tibet by Richard Gere; 143 pages.
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Used-Good. Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. Pilgrim will change that. The sixty-five striking photographs collected in this book document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet--the work of a mature artist exploring subject matter that is close to his heart. The images--which capture the rarely glimpsed rites and shrines of Tibetan Buddhism as well as the remote peoples and landscapes of central Asia--are hushed and meditative, reflecting Gere's spiritual journey as much as his terrestrial wanderings. The book includes a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, an introduction by Gere, and a poem by Patti Smith that accompanies the portfolio. Reproduced on luxurious uncoated stock in an oversized format, the photographs in Pilgrim bring to life an ancient and spirituality vital world--and share Gere's very personal vision. Actor Richard Gere is well known for his outspoken defense of the Tibetan people, his Buddhist beliefs, and his friendship with the Dalai Lama. What is less well known is that Gere has long been a serious and accomplished photographer. The 65 striking photos collected here document Gere's extensive travels in India, Nepal, Zanskar, and Tibet. All of Gere's profits from this book will be donated to Tibetan charities. 64 quadratone illustrations. Scratching/scuffing on back fabric cover. Out of print. Book has mild to moderate shelf wear.
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Richard Gere. Fine. No Dust Jacket as Issued. Book 1st. Edition 1st. Printing 1997, Red cloth hardcover with gilded letters on the front board and spine and tipped on paper photo to the front board, 143 page book. Photographic work by Richard Gere and a poem by Patti Smith and the foreword by His Holiness the 14th. Dalai Lama. Condition: Fine. Size: Folio-over 12"-15" tall.
Richard Gere is almost as famous for his Buddhism as he is for his acting, and he has intelligently used his high profile as a platform for speaking out passionately about the tragic situation in Tibet. Gere has been a sincere and devoted practitioner of TIbetan Buddhism for 30 years and is an intimate of The Dalai Lama. His high profile connections allowed him to receive permission to travel in Tibet, and in 1993 he made the journey, accompanied by another of his teachers, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, who left Tibet following the escalation of Tibetan atrocities in 1959. This was Rinpoche's first visit back to his birthplace, and it was an emotionally charged visit for both, which clearly provided the grist for this book. Gere has shown himself to be a man of many talents, but one that is not generally known is his skill as a photographer. The 64 photographs contained in this book are beautiful, mysterious, and profoundly moving. Reminiscent of the dewy dimness of Victorian photography (epitomized by Edward Steichen's "Flat Iron Building"), these platinum prints on rag paper have a silvery, shimmering quality that is enhanced by Gere's technique. Many of the photos are slightly blurry, out of focus, and hauntingly surreal. Gere has said of these pictures and of his technique that he wanted people not to concentrate so much on the exoticism of the faces, but to see behind the faces to the emotions and inner qualities of his subjects. One photograph of a mother holding her child is so fuzzed out that you immediately understand Gere's goal - what shines through in a luminous, almost supernatural way is the suffering and pain of the subjects. Meditative, hushed, and transcendental, Gere has created the perfect document of the plight of the Tibetan refugees and the horrors of their diaspora. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama. Highest recommendation.
