Photography and Korea / Jeehey Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jeehey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Korea.

Photography.

Korea.

Physical Description:

270 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2023.

Summary:

"From the late nineteenth century, when Korean travelers brought Western photographic technology home from China, to modern times, photography has been interwoven into Korea's political and cultural history. In Photography and Korea, the first history of Korean photography for a Western readership, Jeehey Kim presents multiple visions of the country, including the divided peninsula, Korea as imagined through foreign eyes, key Korean artists, Korean diasporas and local professional and vernacular photographers. Kim explores studio and institutional practices during the Japanese colonial period, and the divergence of practices after the division of Korea." -- Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The darkroom on the peninsula

Korean photography and Japanese colonialism

Photography in and about North Korea

The Korean War and photography of the 1950s

Korean photography since the 1970s

Diaspora in and out of Korea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781789147100

1789147107

OCLC:

1346531555