Background
Richard Lannoy was born on May 26, 1928, in Surrey, United Kingdom.
1953
Richard Lannoy
1953
Richard Lannoy
Richard Lannoy
(Explores India's past, its cultural development,a nd its ...)
Explores India's past, its cultural development,a nd its contemporary social achievements and dilemmas.
https://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Tree-Indian-Culture-Society/dp/0195197542/ref=sr_1_11?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-11
1974
(This loving collaboration between an artist and a cultura...)
This loving collaboration between an artist and a cultural historian of India reproduces and explores the erotic temple sculptures of India in a unique book in which both drawings.
https://www.amazon.com/eye-love-temple-sculpture-India/dp/0802101372/ref=sr_1_12?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-12
1976
(Anandamayi was a simple country girl from a remote villag...)
Anandamayi was a simple country girl from a remote village on the easternmost border of India who became a personality of the highest spiritual distinction. Richard Lannoy reveals a personality at once both breathtakingly simple and an enigma of fathomless complexity. His high-speed action photography captures her essence while his text recounts her dramatic spiritual metamorphosis from youthful ecstatic to venerable sage.
https://www.amazon.com/Anandamayi-Life-Wisdom-Richard-Lannoy/dp/1852309148/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-1
1996
(Unflinching in his observations, yet enormously sensitive...)
Unflinching in his observations, yet enormously sensitive to his subject, Lannoy records the everyday life of Hinduism's most sacred city. The variety and range of themes are remarkable. Lannoy opens with a revealing account of the way he deals with the interplay between photographic instantaneity and sacred time.
https://www.amazon.com/Benares-Seen-Within-Richard-Lannoy/dp/1902716000/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-2
1999
(This volume introduces the collected poetry of Lewis Thom...)
This volume introduces the collected poetry of Lewis Thompson to the contemporary world. On 19 June 1949, Lewis Thompson was found wandering dazed and penniless by the Ganges River. Taken to a small room, he languished for two days, writing the last entry in his journal and his last poem, Black Flower, before lapsing into a coma. He died alone in Benares on 21 June 1949. Thompson's work is deeply spiritual, lush with Hindu imagery and informed by classical Western scholarship. Sensitive, mystical and erotic, the poetry addresses dreams, God and beautiful young men.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Sun-Richard-Lannoy/dp/1890772151/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-3
2001
(This major contribution to the study of urban culture, fi...)
This major contribution to the study of urban culture, first published in 1999 as the magnificent photographic book Benares Seen From Within, is now issued in a more accessible format and a reduced price, its text substantially revised. Among other themes, Lannoy writes about the metaphysical substructure of the city, the ancient cults of the pillar and the sun-wheel, the Buddha, yoga, commerce and weaving, pilgrimage and extends its survey up to the present, with Hindu-Muslim conflicts, the tension between religion and secularism, and a lively account of the great woman-saint Anandamayi Ma. Illustrated with many photographs by the author.
https://www.amazon.com/Benares-World-Within-Richard-Lannoy/dp/8186569251/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-5
2002
(Lewis Thompson’s journals allow the reader access to a ma...)
Lewis Thompson’s journals allow the reader access to a man of action and a poet deeply committed to his search for the highest realization of Truth in and through Hindu spiritual practice.
https://www.amazon.com/Integral-Realist-Journals-Thompson-1945-1949/dp/097178065X/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-8
2009
(Lewis Thompson was primarily a poet, a man of letters inf...)
Lewis Thompson was primarily a poet, a man of letters influenced by Eastern spiritualism and the poets Rimbaud and Rilke. As Richard Lannoy, the editor of Fathomless Heart, writes, Thompson, who rejected traditional literature after experiencing a spiritual crisis as a teenager, wrote “solely as a form of spiritual exercise the most sparse and urgent communication conceivable.”
https://www.amazon.com/Fathomless-Heart-Spiritual-Philosophical-Reflections/dp/1583942807/ref=sr_1_10?keywords=Richard+Lannoy&qid=1580384984&sr=8-10
2011
Richard Lannoy was born on May 26, 1928, in Surrey, United Kingdom.
Richard Lannoy attended art school.
Richard Lannoy was a painter and photographer, with work exhibited at Sepia International, New York, in 2000. He worked as a publisher at Callisto Books, Bath. He was a member of the founding staff of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England. In 1983 he was a British Council lecturer in India.
He also was a director of the European Program at Friends World College, and a consultant to Spectrum Center for Humanistic Psychotherapy.
He worked as a freelance reportage photographer from 1952 to 1962, including work on a visual aid project in Palestinian refugee camps, 1952-1953, work in the Arabic countries of the Middle East, 1953-1960, and several long periods of travel in India.
His first book was India: People and Places, published in England, the United States, and France in 1955. It took ten years to write the classic study of Indian culture and society. The Speaking Tree, which was published in 1971, the book is very well known in India. He gave a series of lectures for the British Council in India in 1983, and he has published eight books with Indian themes, climaxing with the definitive study. Benares Seen from Within, with over 500 photographs and an analytical study of this great living city of Hindu and Buddhist spirituality. A selection of the best photographs from the book was exhibited at Sepia International in New York City in 2000.
He returned to painting, for which he had trained as a young man, in 1984 and worked full-time in his Bath studio through 1996. This culminated in a big retrospective exhibition during the Bath International Festival in 1994 and selection for the prestigious John Moores Liverpool biannual painting exhibition. Thereafter he published his archive of photographs of Anandamayi. Then he returned to his monumental photographic and analytical study of the great ancient city of Benares, which he had begun in 1953.
(This major contribution to the study of urban culture, fi...)
2002(Lewis Thompson’s journals allow the reader access to a ma...)
2009(This loving collaboration between an artist and a cultura...)
1976(Anandamayi was a simple country girl from a remote villag...)
1996(Unflinching in his observations, yet enormously sensitive...)
1999(Lewis Thompson was primarily a poet, a man of letters inf...)
2011(Explores India's past, its cultural development,a nd its ...)
1974(This volume introduces the collected poetry of Lewis Thom...)
2001Richard Lannoy once said: “My primary motivation for writing is the desire and pursuit of the whole. I have been influenced by many writers in several disciplines, but I would select as among the most profound influences Rilke, Eliade, Jung, Canetti, Mumford, L. L. Whyte, and Octavio Paz. However, as discoverer and editor of the poet and aphorist Lewis Thompson, who lived for many years in India, an almost unknown Englishman who died in 1949 at age forty, I consider him to be the deepest influence on me as a writer and as a person. Spiritually, Anandamayi has been a cardinal influence."
Quotations:
“I regard my life as an indivisible cluster of related activities with a strongly non-academic visual bias."
‘‘This might be thought of as the climax of my whole career, but while it is the fruit of sustained reflection and creativity over a period of nearly half a century, the book in which I hope to draw all the threads of my varied life together is my autobiography, Lighted Room. This will be the densest and intricate account of a very personal vision that I have encountered in my research of the genre."
“I write out of deep and purely personal motivation, always with my many dear friends in mind, and also for numberless unknown Indians, whose country has given me so much. I am self-educated and from childhood onward I have been determinedly and obstinately holistic, inter-disciplinary, drawing on the wellsprings of the spiritual intellect within the great tradition of spiritual culture transmitted for millennia across the Eurasian super-continent.”
Richard Lannoy was married to Violet Dias Lannoy.