KIM JUNG II LOOKINGS AT THINGS - João Rocha
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. An uninterrupted series of photographs of North Korea's Dear Leader looking at things, this series fascinates through its formal rigor and the intensity of the imaginings it conveys. Without depriving these photographs of their primary function - to elevate Kim Jong Il to iconic status - this series shifts the subject and the stakes of propaganda. The icon becomes a taxonomy, the viewer is looked at, and the meaning of the images is constantly elusive.
Accompanied by a previously unpublished essay by Marco Bohr entitled Regarder Kim Jong Il regarder des choses (Looking at Kim Jong Il looking at things), the book reveals the roots of our fascination with these images accumulated on the Internet - these memes - by analyzing the way in which a series of seemingly innocent photographs becomes viral and attractive.
With the publication of Kim Jong Il Looking at Things in its FOLLOW ME collection , Collecting Images Today, Jean Boîte Édition continues to shed light on another art scene, one that establishes the online collector as creator, and installs the ephemeral in the perennial.
Published by JBE Books, 2012
16.7 cm x 24 cm, 190 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36568-002-8
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. An uninterrupted series of photographs of North Korea's Dear Leader looking at things, this series fascinates through its formal rigor and the intensity of the imaginings it conveys. Without depriving these photographs of their primary function - to elevate Kim Jong Il to iconic status - this series shifts the subject and the stakes of propaganda. The icon becomes a taxonomy, the viewer is looked at, and the meaning of the images is constantly elusive.
Accompanied by a previously unpublished essay by Marco Bohr entitled Regarder Kim Jong Il regarder des choses (Looking at Kim Jong Il looking at things), the book reveals the roots of our fascination with these images accumulated on the Internet - these memes - by analyzing the way in which a series of seemingly innocent photographs becomes viral and attractive.
With the publication of Kim Jong Il Looking at Things in its FOLLOW ME collection , Collecting Images Today, Jean Boîte Édition continues to shed light on another art scene, one that establishes the online collector as creator, and installs the ephemeral in the perennial.
Published by JBE Books, 2012
16.7 cm x 24 cm, 190 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36568-002-8
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. An uninterrupted series of photographs of North Korea's Dear Leader looking at things, this series fascinates through its formal rigor and the intensity of the imaginings it conveys. Without depriving these photographs of their primary function - to elevate Kim Jong Il to iconic status - this series shifts the subject and the stakes of propaganda. The icon becomes a taxonomy, the viewer is looked at, and the meaning of the images is constantly elusive.
Accompanied by a previously unpublished essay by Marco Bohr entitled Regarder Kim Jong Il regarder des choses (Looking at Kim Jong Il looking at things), the book reveals the roots of our fascination with these images accumulated on the Internet - these memes - by analyzing the way in which a series of seemingly innocent photographs becomes viral and attractive.
With the publication of Kim Jong Il Looking at Things in its FOLLOW ME collection , Collecting Images Today, Jean Boîte Édition continues to shed light on another art scene, one that establishes the online collector as creator, and installs the ephemeral in the perennial.
Published by JBE Books, 2012
16.7 cm x 24 cm, 190 pages, new
ISBN 978-2-36568-002-8
