Forces of Vulnerability in Postwar Korean Photography

November 6, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies

Art historian Joan Kee of the University of Michigan will present a lecture on developments in Korean photography in the postwar era. The practice of photography in postwar Korea was shaped around the twinning of economic development with state-promoted 芒鈧搕radition,芒鈧 through images produced through photojournalism as well as for those tapped for inclusion in the annual government art salon, the Kukj脜聫n. This lecture will discuss a critical mass of photographers who came of professional age in the 1960s and sought to open a different kind of space, one requiring a deeper and more singular investment from audiences than mere acknowledgment or even sympathy. Concentrating on the photographs of Jun Min-cho, Yook Myung-shim, and Joo Myung-duk, Kee will consider the pursuit of vulnerability as an alternative means of development beyond that endorsed by political and cultural elites looking to humanize the state芒鈧劉s relentless push for material progress.


Event Sponsor
Center for Korean Studies and Department of Art and Art History, Mānoa Campus

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Merclyn Labuguen, (808) 956-7041, merclyn@hawaii.edu,

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