Drawings and photographs from the first ‘discovery’ by Western travellers, 1830s to the end of Soviet Occupation, late 1980s

Drawing of the Buddhas of Bamiyan by Alexander Burnes, as he saw them during his visit in Bamiyan in 1832 © Wikimedia
Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan From “Voyages de l’ embouchure de l’ Indus” Alexander Burnes 1832
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Vincent Eyre, Portraits of the Cabla Prisoners, Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Portraits of the cabul Prisoners, RCMS 101, 1842
Talbot, M.G. and Maitland, P.J., The Rock-Cut Caves and Statues of Bamian, in The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVII, 1886
D’après un croquis du capitaine P. J. Maitland, 1886. André Godard, Yeda Godard et Joseph Hackin, Les Antiquités bouddhiques de Bâmiyân. MDAFA II. Paris et Bruxelles, Van Oest, 1928, 113 p., pl. VIII

 

A man cycling past the cliffs of Bamian, Afghanistan in 2005. © Stephen Dupont/Contact Press Images
Tourist next to the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan photo by Edmund Melzl in 1958
Le petit bouddha (38 mètres). 10 mai 1964 © Pierre Centlivres
1950s © Yvonne von Schweinitz
Eastern Buddha Statue
The Western Buddha under restoration, 1970s © ASI
Large Buddha, after its destruction in 2001, Bamiyan (photo: Corbis.Com)
Photograph by Soviet military personnel in the 1980s
Large Buddha, 5th7th century, before destruction, Bamiyan (photo: Richard Edwards, courtesy of ACSAA Color Slide Project, University of Michigan, #2871)
© (source) ICOMOS
35m Brihad (Colossal) Buddha, Drawing of Ceiling by Yedda A. Godard, from Les Antiquites Bouddhiques de Bamiyan, (Paris and Brussels: les Editions G. Van Oest, 1928).
35m Brihad (Colossal) Buddha, Drawing of Ceiling by Yedda A. Godard, from Les Antiquites Bouddhiques de Bamiyan, (Paris and Brussels: les Editions G. Van Oest, 1928).
Plan of Cave Chapels at Base of 35m Buddha From Godard, Godard, and Hackin, Les Antiquites Bouddhiques de Bamiyan, Paris and Brussels: les Editions G. Van Oest, 1928, fig. 18

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