The Killing Fields

Chris Riley and Douglas Niven

ISBN 10: 094409239X / ISBN 13: 9780944092392

Published by Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, 1996

About this Item

4to. 112 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Brown cloth. Slight wear and fading to edges. Clear acetate jacket rubbed with light scratches. One of 3,000 copies printed.

Seller Inventory # c01429

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Killing Fields
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 094409239X
• ISBN 13: 9780944092392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Photographs of prisoners from the S-21 death camp, edited by Chris Riley and Douglas Niven, with memoires of Vann Nath and Sara Colm. Beautifully designed and printed book with 100 Sheet-fed Gravure Plates.

Reviews

The faces gazing from these pages are those of the soon-to-die, for these photos were taken in S^-21, an institution for the "interrogation" of accused "counterrevolutionaries" in Pol Pot's Cambodia. They show men, women, and children; the last are often shockingly young, and a few women appear with babies. The faces express fear, sadness, fatalism, gallantry in attempts to smile, and even wary anger. Usually, below the face a number is pinned to a shirt; you may find yourself looking hard at a bare-torsoed preadolescent to make sure the pin is taped on the skin rather than pierced, somehow bloodlessly, through it (that is how brutal these pictures are: they make sadism expectable). Of course, there is beauty in these faces and figures, too, which did not save them from revolutionary ideology. Of the 14,000 persons incarcerated in S^-21 between 1975 and 1979, David Chandler says in his afterword, only 7 came out alive. Ray Olson