Issue 2.2, China Vision, Part II

Seeing History: Rediscovering the Art of Tibet Through Modern Imaging Technology by Dr. Chandra L. Reedy, University of Delaware

[Supplemental Illustrations]

Figures 1 & 2 (below) show Dr. Reedy using a binocular microscope with digital camera attached, and the image being sent over to a computer for image analysis.

Dr. Chandra Reedy with binocular microscope

Dr. Reedy using binocular microscope

Figure 3 (below) View of binocular microscope with digital camera with Dr. Reedy's laboratory in the background (the Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware).

Dr. Reedy's laboratory

 

 

About the author

Dr. Chandra L. Reedy is a professor in the Center for Historic Architecture and Design at the University of Delaware, with secondary appointments in the Center for Material Culture Studies, Art History, and East Asian Studies. She also serves as Director of UD’s Laboratory for Analysis of Cultural Materials. Reedy’s fieldwork is conducted in Tibetan areas of China, most recently in northern Sichuan province and in the Lhasa area of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Reedy holds a PhD in interdisciplinary archaeology from UCLA and is the author or co-author of five books and over 60 research articles.