Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon
The reality of a politically turbulent Korea, captured by a native outsider.
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 strangers, a close-up of a holstered gun—into a rhythmic whole that suggests a perilous, explosive atmosphere lingering just below the surface. Each single shot possesses the power to work on its own—due to a photographic sense that seems ahead of its time—but woven together, the series unfolds its true, almost existentialist strength.
30 years after its creation, the series is finally published in a photobook by Tokyo-based Zen Foto Gallery.
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- Book Size
- 240 × 182 mm
- Pages
- 252 pages, 119 images
- Binding
- Softcover
- Publication Date
- October, 2019
- Language
- English, Japanese, Korean
- Limited Edition
- 1000
- ISBN
- 978-4-905453-88-8