"Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992" Exhibition
Gallery Korea
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Experience the captivating imagery in this collection of photographs by some of the pioneers of modern Korean photography. The fifty-four photographs showcase the first generation of Korean realists who played a pivotal role in the development and enrichment of Korean photography as an art form. The exhibition marks the first time these original black and white photographs have been mounted in the United States and fills a chasm not only in the visual archive of modern Korean photography but also in the visual vernacular of the period.
Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes, 1945–1992 reveals everyday life through exuberant visual diversity and documents anthropologically important aspects of Korea’s nearly forgotten recent past. The photographs offer a counter-narrative of ordinary lives during this turbulent period of Korean history. These photographs are documentary, but at the same time aesthetically charged, illustrating and illuminating the traces and trails of Korean life as seen through Korean eyes.
The selected photographs are on loan from one of the first public photography museums in Korea, Dong-Gang Museum of Photography, and from several of the photographers and their estates. This exhibition is the product of a joint effort between The Korea Society and an independent curator, Chang Jae Lee.
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Schedule
from September 19, 2012 to January 31, 2013