Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon Special Edition (A)

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Clandestine Pursuit in the Long Afternoon Special Edition (A)

KOO Bohnchang

Publisher: Zen Foto Gallery

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, slipcase
Publication Date
October, 2019
Language
English, Japanese, Korean
Limited Edition
48
gelatin silver print on baryta paper
Paper Size
170 × 232 mm
Image Size
140 × 209 mm

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