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| The Vendome Press |
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Barry Brukoff
The Wall Street Journal
In the late 1960s, Barry Brukoff began an ambitious project to photograph the ruins of the Khmer empire, which had flourished from the 9th to the 14th centuries among the monsoon-green forests and rice paddies of Cambodia. Though delayed by decades of war, he never lost his fascination with an art that prized order and harmony. 'Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor' (Vendome, 247 pages, $65) is a magnificent journey through the remnants of the least-known of the great world civilizations. Mr. Brukoff's photographs show the austere brick temples of the 7th and 8th centuries giving way to magnificently tiered 'temple mountains.' His studies of the Khmer's premier achievement, the 12th-century Angkor Wat complex, hint at its astonishing scale, frequently peeking out from a detail of one temple to capture other intricate structures behind. Yet Angkor Wat was just one part of the capital city—Angkor, with an estimated population of 750,000, would have been the world's largest city in the 1100s, and likely the most beautiful. Though they take ruins as their subject, Mr. Brukoff's images capture the most timeless elements of Khmer ingenuity. Choosing a perspective above that makes the colonnades of Bayon, another Angkor temple, seem endless, he shows the plan behind the beauty.
The Editors
4 comments:
New Ambassador to Viet-Cambodia from the U.S.?
Let me tell you something:
Even with the Ambassador from Heaven to Cambodia, dumb Khmer is helpless. We, Viet, are already controlling Viet-Cambodia from top to bottom, from the Sanate to the farm land...
Hun Sen will be irrelevant in the very near future and there will be more and brighter Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet smarter ones to lead Viet-Cambodia...
Viet is everywhere in Viet-Cambodia from farmer to technician, from nurse to doctor, from firefighter to engineer, from rubber plantation owner/worker to Hun Sen's political advisor and bodyguards including Angkor Wat's owner...You all name it and Viet is there...Khmer doesn't do squat besides getting addicted to Viet's ass in Viet-Cambodia, even foreigners are enjoying it nicely...
Once again, whether or not all you dumb Khmer surrender yourselves to Viet, Khmer is now deep-rooted Viet, and irreversibly so already.
Hun Sen is just a dumb Viet-Khmer that can be disposed of at anytime at just a blink of an eye!
Challenge me if all of you dumb Khmer can. We have millions of us (legally the majority thanks to that dumb Hun Sen) that will vote for Viet-Khmer candidate legally and democratically forever, even the outside world would support and agree...
How Sam Raingsy and/or any of your worthless so-called dumb heroe(s) including the stupid dumb king Sihanouk of yours that just wants to reign plan to win Cambodia back? The Federation of Indochina under Viet's rule and control is here to stay on this planet earth for real. How do all of you dumb Khmer think or plan to de-veitnamize it???
KRT is just a show to entertain the world. We, Viet, are that good and smart.
Can Khmer put up the second Killing fields to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Okay you dumb Khmer - put it up or shut up while we, Viet, are domesticating you for the bright future of the Federation of Indochina!
It's all too late for you dumb Khmer already!!!
Ms. Soap
P.s Think about how all of our Viet-Khmer/Khmer-Viet offsprings/Half-breeds would look beautifully and be smart like in our Federation of Indochina???
តើខ្មែរអាចសំឡាប់ប្រជាជន យួន ខ្មែរ រាប់លាន
អ្នកបានដូចដែល វៀត ធ្វើនោះទេ?
ស្ដាប់ឮទេខ្មែរ ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ???
Once again, can Khmer put up the second Killing Field to get rid of millions of legal Viet-Khmer citizen now like we, Viet, did?
Eest-ce que vous m'entendez les ignorants Khmers?
Juste Pour me répéter:
Peut Khmer créer un deuxième «Killing Field» pour se débarasser des millions de Viet-Khmer qui sont maintenant les habitants légaux du Viet-Cambodge comme nous, les Viets, avions fait?
KI-Media is yesterday news and ought to shut down for good or better yet, come kiss our Viet's ass now!!!
DUMB, VIETCONGS/VIETNAMS, YOUR SMART IN THE BAD WAYS BY KILLING KHMERS PEOPLE AND TAKE OVER THEIR LANDS AND COUNTY ETC. EVEN IN AMERICA, WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS), DO SOMETHING WRONGS.
1. YOU TELLING AMERICANS PEOPLE, YOU ARE KHMER/CAMBODIAN.
2 WHEN YOU (DUMB VIETCONGS) DO SOMETHING GOOD, YOU TELLING AMERICANS
PEOPLE, YOU ARE VIETNAMESE OR CHINESE.
DON'T LOOKS DOWN ON KHMERS PEOPLE AS YOU ARE SO DUMB TOO.
AND THE WORLD IS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE NOW, MAYBE YOUR (DUMB EVILS VIETCONGS) GO TO HELL SOON.
10:48 pm
Thank you for responding to the crazy Viet above. His ambition will be disolved as soon as Khmer can united into one by leaving pity differences aside and focus only on fighting for national interest.
Khmer Las Vegas
don't hold you breath...4:23AM!
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