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Author Lee, Jung Joon, author

Title Shooting for change : Korean photography after the war / Jung Joon Lee
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 279 pages) : illustrations
Contents War and the image of an orphan nation -- The place of women in family photography -- Shooting social movements -- The photo public in the Kwangjang -- The DMZ, camptowns, and the theater of repetition -- Listening to camptown photographs
Summary "Shooting for Change examines postwar Korean photography and the discursive ways in which photography makes meaning and engages with memory in Korea and the Korean diaspora. Jung Joon Lee considers the role of photography-especially "national" photography-in shaping post-memory of historical events, representing the ideal national family, and motivating social movements. The book is organized thematically, following photographic practices from vernacular and art to documentary and archival, while treating the formative periods in nation-building and transnational militarization as both backdrop and cultivator for photographic works. Lee draws on photography of militarized sex work, political protest in the military era, war orphans, and mass protests. Shooting for Change is ultimately driven by a desire for an epistemologically decolonizing approach to Korean photography"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Photography -- Korea (South) -- History -- 20th century
Photography -- Political aspects -- Korea (South)
Photography -- Social aspects -- Korea (South)
Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Photography
Korean diaspora in art.
Postcolonialism and the arts -- Korea (South)
Nationalism in art.
PHOTOGRAPHY / History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023040695
ISBN 9781478059202
1478059206