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Background information
"When the European traveler flies into Pagan (a village on the eastern bank of the Irrawaddy River in Burma, now Myanmar), a landscape opens up to him with buildings in seemingly endless numbers, but without these seeming to form a city, a town, a village. It seems more like an apparition, of hermetic strangeness, difficult for the outsider to access and understand, but rather mysterious and peculiar, and for that very reason attractive. The fascinating and incomprehensible move the traveler to deal with this phenomenon." (taken verbatim from the book)
Rudolf Knubel (co-editor) and Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG documented with the out of print photo book 'Views of Pagan, Burma') a state of decay, and tried to depict transience of the powerful system in Pagan by its remains.
Content
The black and white photographs in the book 'Ansichten von Pagan, Burma' by Ursula SCHULZ-DORNBURG and Rudolf Knubel show the system from a slightly elevated perspective. Two-thirds of the book shows landscape photographs which, as drawings in the book document, result from a clockwise spiral approach.
The second part of the book shows stone sculptures created in the Ananda Temple, followed by exterior views and three landscape shots.