The Limited Edition Box contains a bound hardcover First Edition book (24 × 28 cm), 128 pages, 101 two-coloured plates and a limited, signed edition print of 20 × 25 cm. This is number 44 of an edition of 50 copies. Small smudge on the front. This book completes the trilogy Fan Ho began with Hong Kong Yesterday and The Living Theatre. In his previous monographs, viewers were introduced to Hong Kong during the 1950s and 1960s. Through his brilliant eye for light, composition, and his patience for the ‘decisive moment,’ Mr. Ho created striking images that continue to resonate through the decades. Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir revisits this lost era. Born in Shanghai, Fan Ho and his family settled in a buoyant Hong Kong in 1948. The centre of a chaotic atmosphere, the city had received the thousands of refugees of Japan’s invasion and thus was marked by despair, poverty and tumult. With his black and white images, Fan Ho illustrated a nostalgic and melancholic cinematic Hong Kong where traces of modern life and issues disappeared behind traditional lifestyles as if reality had been erased: ‘I liked to concentrate and simplify the world in black and white. I could express my emotions more freely, they were more fully under my control, and the results were surreal and semi-abstract. I liked this distance: not too close, not too far away…’ With his reclusive photographs, Fan Ho offered a seductive fantasy to Hong Kong’s inhabitants, that of loneliness.