Red Utopia
Photographs from North Korea
Εκδότης:
Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη
Έτος:
2007
ISBN:
9789600343502
Σελίδες:
256
Εξώφυλλο:
Μαλακό
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Red Utopia
This book presents a photographic study which materialised under conditions of prohibition, in a country where the authorities control not only whether something is to documented but also the manner in which it is to be documented. North Korea is perhaps the most isolated country in the world. Its historic moniker, the "Hermit Kingdom", seems more appropriate now than ever before. Yannis Kontos’ photographs portray another world, light years away from our own reality. And it is this which gives them such exceptional value: they provide a window on a world to which, under normal circumstances, we would have no access at all. Images vividly peculiar and inexplicable, in terms of our (familiar, western) logic. Girls holding Kalashnikovs; crowds milling in front of giant posters inciting the destruction of American imperialism rather than the acquisition of consumer products; a metropolis of sky-scrapers completely bare of advertisements plunged into darkness every night at ten; the baroque feel of the Pyongyang Metro and other public spaces; the Great Leader’s portrait looming over every possible location, whether public or private; the sense of militaristic ritual even in the most mundane moments of everyday life...
This book presents a photographic study which materialised under conditions of prohibition, in a country where the authorities control not only whether something is to documented but also the manner in which it is to be documented. North Korea is perhaps the most isolated country in the world. Its historic moniker, the "Hermit Kingdom", seems more appropriate now than ever before. Yannis Kontos’ photographs portray another world, light years away from our own reality. And it is this which gives them such exceptional value: they provide a window on a world to which, under normal circumstances, we would have no access at all. Images vividly peculiar and inexplicable, in terms of our (familiar, western) logic. Girls holding Kalashnikovs; crowds milling in front of giant posters inciting the destruction of American imperialism rather than the acquisition of consumer products; a metropolis of sky-scrapers completely bare of advertisements plunged into darkness every night at ten; the baroque feel of the Pyongyang Metro and other public spaces; the Great Leader’s portrait looming over every possible location, whether public or private; the sense of militaristic ritual even in the most mundane moments of everyday life...
| Τίτλος βιβλίου: | Red Utopia | ||
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| Υπότιτλος βιβλίου: | Photographs from North Korea | ||
| Τίτλος πρωτότυπου: | Κόκκινη ουτοπία: Φωτογραφίες από την Βόρεια Κορέα | ||
| Εκδότης: | Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη | ||
| Συντελεστές βιβλίου: | Μουτσόπουλος, Θανάσης (Συγγραφέας) Ελευθερίου, Μιχάλης (Μεταφραστής) Κόντος, Γιάννης, 1971- (Φωτογράφος) Μουτσόπουλος, Θανάσης (Επιμελητής) Πετσίνη, Πηνελόπη (Επιμελητής) | ||
| ISBN: | 9789600343502 | Εξώφυλλο βιβλίου: | Μαλακό |
| Στοιχεία έκδοσης: | 2007 | Διαστάσεις: | 27x21 |
| Σημείωση: | This book was published on the occasion of Yannis Kontos' exhibition at the Frissiras Museum, January-April, 2007. | ||
| Κατηγορίες: | Γενικά Βιβλία > Καλές Τέχνες > Φωτογραφία | ||
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