The Splendours of ASIA

Dorothy Hales Gary’s remarkable photographs of India, Thailand, and Japan, of temples, towers, courtyards, and gardens, of buildings and artefacts dating from the twelfth century and earlier, and made of stone, wood, and a variety of precious metals are a superb study in contrasts.

Her collaborator, Robert Payne, author of many books on the Far East, has contributed an illuminating commentary on the photographs, seen in the context of the art and thought of the three countries.