Just discovered Geoff Manaugh’s great blog, BLDG BLOG, and on it, the dazzling photographs of Indian temple architecture by Takeo Kamiya. Try this one from Jaisalmer for a taste of the architecture’s “full hallucinatory power.”

(Image: Takeo Kamiya)

Or this vertiginious 18th century wooden temple in Himachal Pradesh.

(Image: Takeo Kamiya) 

And this, with the daunting door, in Chitorgarh.

(Image:  Takeo Kamiya)

For many more such delights, check out the introduction to Kamiya’s work on the BLDG BLOG here: http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-rock-tombs-cave-temples-and.html. 

And roam through Kamiya’s own site here: http://www.kamit.jp/engl.htm

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