Research Catalog

Title

Performing Tibetan identities : photographic portraits by Nyema Droma / Clare Harris and Nyema Droma.

Author

Harris, Clare.

Publication

• Oxford : Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

Droma, Nyema.

Description

80 pages : color illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

Nyema Droma is a young Tibetan photographer and curator from Lhasa, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People?s Republic of China. She developed her practice as a photographer at the London College of Fashion and has worked in both the UK and China. 0For 'Performing Tibetan Identities', Nyema photographed other young Tibetans, whether living in Europe as members of the Tibetan diaspora, or in Tibetan-speaking areas of China. Her pictures document the many things they share as global citizens and consumers of popular culture, as well as the particularities of their Tibetan heritage. By producing double portraits of each person, in daily wear and ?traditional? clothing, Nyema alludes to the fluidity of identity formation and how it may be expressed in dress and objects, revealing the range of options for self-fashioning that are available to contemporary Tibetans.00Exhibition: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK (13.10.2018-30.05.2019).

Subjects

• Pictorial works
• National characteristics, Tibetan
• Tibetan diaspora
• Tibetans > Pictorial works
• Tibetans > Ethnic identity
• Tibetans in art

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• Exhibition held at Pitt Rivers Museum 13th October 2018-30th May 2019.

Contents

Setting the stage for 'Performing Tibetan identities' -- The context and the concept -- The photographer and her subjects -- The exhibition portraits -- The archive.

ISBN

• 9780902793583
• 0902793586

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries