Photography and Tibet: Clare Harris. Reaktion Books, London, 2016. 224 pages, with 60 colour plates and 50 halftones. Softcover £19.95, ISBN 978-1-780-23652-0.

Historically, the photographic record of Tibet has been suffused with Orientalism and shaped by the machinations of geopolitics. Photography and Tibet, authored by the anthropologist and scholar of...