RILEY, Chris, and Douglas Niven, eds.

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Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1996. First edition; one of 3,000 copies. 112pp; b&w gravure plates. 4to. Dark gray cloth with embossed black square to front board. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in the unprinted glassine jacket, which shows moderate rubbing. A collection of black-and-white portraits of people who were "incarcerated by the Khmer Rouge at Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, from 1975 to 1997"; printed from negatives drawn from the archive of the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide. With texts at rear by survivor Vann Nath (as translated by Sara Colm) and David Chandler. A stark and arresting document of the human costs of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror. Show more