The Washington Post
12th December, 2011
Photographs by Barry Brukoff; text by Helen Ibbitson Jessup (Vendome, $65)
For most, the term “Angkor” conjures up images of Angkor Wat, the magnificent temple complex deep in the Cambodian jungle, built at the apogee of the Khmer kingdom. But this splendid volume makes clear that the temples of Cambodia have a history that long precedes Angkor Wat. Photographer Barry Brukoff first visited the various temple sites in Cambodia in the late 1960s and went on to photograph numerous other ancient ruins around the world. The fall of the Khmer Rouge allowed Brukoff to return, capture new images and marvel all over again at the temples’ beauty, but he was discouraged by the decay and damage the sites had suffered in the interim. Accompanying these images is text by renowned Khmer scholar Helen Ibbitson Jessup, who was in Washington not long ago as curator of the Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia at the National Gallery. — CS
Photographs by Barry Brukoff; text by Helen Ibbitson Jessup (Vendome, $65)
For most, the term “Angkor” conjures up images of Angkor Wat, the magnificent temple complex deep in the Cambodian jungle, built at the apogee of the Khmer kingdom. But this splendid volume makes clear that the temples of Cambodia have a history that long precedes Angkor Wat. Photographer Barry Brukoff first visited the various temple sites in Cambodia in the late 1960s and went on to photograph numerous other ancient ruins around the world. The fall of the Khmer Rouge allowed Brukoff to return, capture new images and marvel all over again at the temples’ beauty, but he was discouraged by the decay and damage the sites had suffered in the interim. Accompanying these images is text by renowned Khmer scholar Helen Ibbitson Jessup, who was in Washington not long ago as curator of the Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia at the National Gallery. — CS
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