Photography, memory and nostalgia : a critical look at the documentary tradition in Korea

Im, Yung-Ho (author)

Based on the photographs of Ki-chan Kim, this essay examines how the tradition of documentary photography in Korea evolved in terms of subject, style, and ways of seeing. It emerged as a humanistic response to the harsh social reality of the 1940s in an oppressive political atmosphere for photographers dealing with socially sensitive subjects. Hence, a compromise between roles of the arts and social muckraking characterised the evolving documentary tradition. In documenting the back streets of Seoul, Kim tends to reduce a subject with broad social implications to an introspective story of personal memory, thus representing the Korean documentary tradition.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2007
• Number of pages: Str. 65-78
• Numbering: Vol. 14, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-74916
• UDC: 316.77:77
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26712157
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown

Abstract

Na primeru fotografa Ki-chan Kima članek proučuje, kako se je oblikovala tradicija korejske dokumentarne fotografije glede na predmet, stil in pogled. Nastala je kot humanistični odgovor na trdo družbeno stvarnost v letih po 1940, v zatiralskem političnem ozračju za fotografe, ki so slikali družbeno občutljive teme. Za to obdobje je zato značilen kompromis med vlogo umetnosti ter vlogo razkrivanja socialnih nepravičnosti. Kim z dokumentiranjem stranskih ulic Seula spreminja tematiko s širokimi družbenimi implikacijami v introspektivno pripoved osebnega spomina.