The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. LXXXIX, Part 1-2 ... - Khamkoo

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gelling it published Though ~us hunk has
probably sold slowly. if only to other phoJogmphcrs
and serious collectors o l' pholo-cssa)'S.
jl IS no bad thing that the world has. this dark
record of such madness. For \Vhen. jf cvcr. rhai
Lr.:atric is .as regulated as Smbrnpore's, then 1his
book w ill stand as fan intct't"Sling his{orical
document. The comic- ~ tri p approach may be
j ust Blenkiusop'> reaclion In !he morbidity ur
ib :mbject. hul he wi ll haVOtllc
eolor images-. 204 page~. 20.5x25.5 en~ hMdback)'?
The c.hoicc of covet phOlOgraph suggests
sflme~ hil)g unu:fual-an ohlique shot taken from
ncar ground Jevel sho\VIIIg the back of a woman's
leg:; u;-; she i~ ai)OUI to walk past a sp1rit house
into a hotel. IJackground signs in Enghsh shuw
lh:lt the shot has been tnkcn in a w uris1 area, but
othe-rwise the image snys Jiulc more unti l you
open the bouk uoJ 5ee the rom iuuatiun of the
photograph on Llu.: btu.:k cov~:r. There i~ fl dog
(Out ul' lhcu:-, and ('I\'Cr-cxpuS1.'LI ) :md partly hidden
sign:. ind icaling lhe e nll'UJII.:t' to a cone,_._
hmlse. The sleaLy Wne uf1hc work is sci.
We are assured on 1l1c Jackel llap 1hn1 I his
bool'!:. autJmr is a member ofl la.LUburg's Focus
Agency. that Llus. prOJCC( is 1he 'fruit of ::.CVut Jic•vt:r
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