Hidden in plain sight
By: Bunny Burson ; foreword [by] Madeleine Albright ; essay [by] Karen K. Butler
Contributors: Albright, Madeleine Korbel, author of introduction, etc; Butler, Karen K., 1972- author; Kelm, Daniel E., binder; Botnick, Ken, book designer, printer; Emdash (Firm); Wide Awake Garage
Publisher: Bunny Burson
Published: 2015
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Subjects: Artists' books; American Prints; Specimens; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Personal narratives; Correspondence
Description: This is the artist's response to her discovery in 2009 of a bundle of more than 100 letters written in German by her grandparents between 1939 and 1941. The letters were sent from Riga, Latvia, to their children, the artist's mother and uncle, who had been sent from Leipzig, Germany, to safety in Memphis, Tennessee. They reveal the story of her grandparents' journey from Leipzig to Riga before their deaths in 1941. The letters were then "hidden in plain signt" in her family's attic for almost 70 years. After the letters were translated into English, the author discovered part of her family's history and was inspired to record her grandparents' lives and to map their journey.
Notes: "Designed and printed in 2015 at emdash studio in St. Louis, Missouri, by Ken Botnick with the assistance of Catherine Johnson, and bound by Daniel Kelm at Wide Awake Garage in Easthampton, Massachusetts ... There are 27 books in this edition"--Colophon.

Issued in a black cloth-covered clamshell case with etchings of the front and back of an envelope attached to the front and back of the case.

Rare Book copy: No. 5; signed by the artist.

In English and German.