# The Adventurous Quest to Capture Remote Buddhist Caves in the 1940s

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/the-adventurous-quest-to-capture-remote-buddhist-caves-in-the-1940s/
- Published: 2021-05-13T10:00:42-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Mogao Cave 158. Middle Tang (781–848) Reclining Buddha, Parinirvāṇa scene. West wall. Lo Archive photograph, 1943–44. Princeton University (Lo 158-10). All images from “Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves,” published by Princeton University Press. Article by Winnie Lee. Atlas Obscura – May 11, 2021. Innovative photographers James and Lucy Lo created a time capsule of a sacred space at a vulnerable time. In the spring of 1943, during the Sino-Japanese War, photographer James Lo and his wife Lucy Lo ventured to a set of remote, nearly abandoned caves near where the ancient northern and southern Silk Road trade routes converged, at the nexus of China and Central Asia. There were 700 […] Click here to view original web page at www.atlasobscura.com