Price: 30,000 won / Dimension:
260x180mm / Pages: 176 /
Soft cover / Full-color /
Published by IANNBOOKS / June, 2010
ILWOO Photography Award winner, Seung Woo Back has continued to explore the theme
of the Real and the Unreal in photography. Researched in meticulous detail,
he again expresses this idea in his two series Blow Up and Utopia explored
on the subject of North Korea; his Blow Up series triggers our attention to the
censorship of North Korea and their authorities to control a national image; in Utopia,
the artist questions us how images of the Other can be idealized and scandalized,
depending on our biased gaze and expectation. As if looking at a panorama or a long
film strip of 1970s era propaganda images, they are placed immediately after another
creating a continuous flow and overall coherence specially designed by Hans Gremmen.
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