Book · 2021 · Photography
Vanishing Asia : Three Volume Set
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This series of three volumes called Vanishing Asia these beautiful coffee table books chronicling the photographs that you've taken over many decades of your experience in in Asia.
Rich Roll · The Rich Roll Podcast · May 2023 Listen at 3:08 The best things said about it
My favorite creation of yours probably is this three volume set it's called Vanishing Asia if I understand correctly it was a 50-year project based around roughly 200 000 photos it's three volumes it's one of the greatest picture books ever produced possibly the greatest.
Tyler Cowen Conversations with Tyler · May 2023 Vanishing Asia 1117.0 Vanishing Asia 30y year plus project.
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Vanishing Asia : Three Volume Set by Kevin Kelly is an expansive, beautifully curated photography collection that chronicles disappearing cultures across the Asian continent through decades of fieldwork. On Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen praised the publication as a monumental achievement, describing it as perhaps the greatest picture book ever produced from a fifty-year project comprising roughly two hundred thousand photos. Rich Roll also discussed the photography collection on The Rich Roll Podcast, admiring how the stunning coffee table books successfully document the rich tapestry of Asian traditions over many years of travel. Additionally, Rolf Potts mentioned the multi-year project on The Tim Ferriss Show while talking about immersive travel experiences. Across these podcast episodes, the speakers emphasized the staggering scale of the archival undertaking, celebrating it as a breathtaking visual monument that preserves rapidly fading cultural landscapes for future generations through the lens of a master traveler.
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Rich Roll this series of three volumes called Vanishing Asia these beautiful coffee table books chronicling the photo… 1
“this series of three volumes called Vanishing Asia these beautiful coffee table books chronicling the photographs that you've taken over many decades of your experience in in Asia”
Rolf Potts Vanishing Asia 1117.0 Vanishing Asia 30y year plus project 1
“Vanishing Asia 1117.0 Vanishing Asia 30y year plus project”
Tyler Cowen my favorite creation of yours probably is this three volume set it's called Vanishing Asia if I understand… 1
“my favorite creation of yours probably is this three volume set it's called Vanishing Asia if I understand correctly it was a 50-year project based around roughly 200 000 photos it's three volumes it's one of the greatest picture books ever produced possibly the greatest”
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“and now Kevin Kelly founding executive editor of Wired Magazine former editor and publisher of the whole earth review and best-selling author of books on technology and culture including excellent advice for living the inevitable what technology wants and Vanishing Asia”
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“Other books by Kevin Kelly include Out of Control, the 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems; The Silver Cord, a graphic novel about robots and angels; What Technology Wants, a robust theory of technology; Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia, and The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future,”
“He recently published a three-volume book called Vanishing Asia that includes 50 years of his photographs from Siberia in the north to Indonesia in the south and everything in between”