Authors:
By (author) undefined, By (author) undefined
Publishers:
JBE BOOKS
Language:
EN / FR
Format:
17.15 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm
Design:
Renaud Othnin-Girard
Date of Publication:
2012-12-17
Availability:
Available
Pages:
192
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed monothematic Tumblrs,
shared and imitated in recent years. Uninterrupted series of photographs of the
Dear North Korean Leader Watching Things, This Series Fascinates By
its formal rigor and the intensity of the imaginations it conveys.
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Without taking away from these photographs their primary function - to elevate Kim Jong-Il to
Iconic rank - this series shifts the subject and the stakes of propaganda.
The icon becomes taxonomy, the viewer is viewed, and the meaning of the images does not
stop shirking.
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Accompanied by an unpublished essay by Marco Bohr entitled Regarder Kim Jong-Il
looking at things, the book reveals the springs of our fascination for
these images accumulated on the Internet – these memes – by analyzing the way in which a
series of seemingly innocent photographs becomes viral and attractive.
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By publishing Kim Jong Il Looking at Things in his FOLLOW ME collection,
Collecting Images Today, Jean Boîte Édition continues its spotlight on a
another artistic scene, which establishes the online collector as creator,
and installs the ephemeral in the perennial.
