Photography, Memory and Nostalgia
A critical look at the Documentary Tradition in Korea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19176254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yung-Ho Im (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 65-78 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Javnost - The Public (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1318-3222 • E-ISSN: 1854-8377 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13183222.2007.11008947 |
| OpenAlex | W2066608185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Based on the photographs of Ki-than 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
Aesthetics · Art · Cognitive psychology · Compromise · Geography · Humanism · Introspection · Photography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |