Letter from P. L. F. (Burma)

Chan T. Chao

ISBN 10: 1590050169 / ISBN 13: 9781590050163

Published by Nazraeli Press, Tucson AZ, 2001

About this Item

Slim hardcover volume in the publisher's "one-picture" book series, signed by the artist and numbered 336/500 on the last page, following a two-sided color photograph hinged onto the page before, and a reproduced letter on the pages that make up the rest of the book. Bound in pale green paper covered boards with white text, the binding is in excellent, nearly new condition, save for some rubbing to the boards from shelving and barely perceptible sunning to the spine that is now an elegant gray rather than pale green.

Seller Inventory # 011983

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letter from P. L. F. (Burma)
• Publisher: Nazraeli Press, Tucson AZ
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590050169
• ISBN 13: 9781590050163
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: Signed, Limited Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Signed: Signed By Artist
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Photography
  • Art: Monographs

About this title

Synopsis

From the publisher : "Chan Chao's first book, Burma: Something Went Wrong (Nazraeli Press, 2000), showed us a region in constant turmoil, whose people have been at war with themselves for generations, where violence and death, nevertheless, provide a backdrop to what is still a golden land. Letter from P.L.F. (Burma) pays respect to two of the guerilla fighters so gently portrayed by Chao: Myint Zaw and Aye Saung. The book is built around a single letter of correspondence sent to Chao in 1997 by Aye Saung. The brief letter relays news of a friend's death, a fighter's struggle, and a movement's dreams and setbacks. While the letter and accompanying portraits are specific to Burma in 1997, the themes found in Letter from P.L.F. are universal, making this an artists' book of the highest order."