Black-and-white street photographs of late-1980s Seoul, capturing political unrest and alienation through an outsider’s gaze.
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Black-and-white street photographs of late-1980s Seoul, capturing political unrest and alienation through an outsider’s gaze.
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In 1988, when Seoul was gearing up to host the Olympic Games, Korean photographer Koo Bohnchang had just returned from a long sojourn in Germany. An outsider in his own country, Bohnchang’s senses were acutely tuned to the messier parts of Korea’s shift; he found himself unsettled by Seoul’s treacherous way of marketing itself. In his brilliant series “Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon”, Bohnchang positions fragments—furniture abandoned on the side of a road, statues, silhouettes of stra...
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Holstered gun image; tense atmosphere of unrest and peril
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Central focus on 1980s Korean political turmoil and social unrest
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