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Tibetan Celebrations
Tibetan Celebrations

Author(s): Pavol Breier
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Photography, Visual Arts, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: Tibet; photography

Summary/Abstract: Pavol Breier ( *1952 Bratislava) graduated from the Prague Film Academy of the Performing Arts (FAMU) is a Slovak documentary photographer. Ever since the end of the 70s he has been regularly producing cycles of photographs featuring mountain regions, concentrating thematically on the life of people in the mountains and on mountain landscapes and wildlife (cycles about Orava, the Pamirs, Himalayas, Tibet and other regions). He has often presented his work at group or solo exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad (solo exhibitions in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, France and Belgium), he is the author or co-author of a number of photographic publications (e.g. The Pamirs, The Little and White Carpathians, On the Roof of the World, The world of Tibetan Buddhism, Labrang: The Universe of a Tibetan Monastery, Shepherds). He teaches photography at the Pan European University and at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.

  • Issue Year: 4/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 48-81
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: English