{"title":"In Pursuit of a Synthesis of Documentary and Aesthetic Vision: An Interview with Korean Photographer Joo Myung Duck","authors":"H. Oh","doi":"10.1215/21582025-10048262","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n This is an interview with a leading Korean photographer Joo Myung Duck (born in 1940), conducted as a part of the Korean Artist Digital Archive. Joo has had a long photographic career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer and is credited as the most eminent figure in Korean contemporary photography since the 1960s. Joo's photography encompasses documentary, landscape, and portraiture with a focus on views of the nature and cultural legacies of Korea, which epitomized his historic consciousness and aesthetic inspirations. This interview situates Joo Myung Duck within the context of contemporary Korean photography and provides an opportunity to comprehend Korean documentary photography.","PeriodicalId":368524,"journal":{"name":"Trans Asia Photography","volume":"478 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trans Asia Photography","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/21582025-10048262","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is an interview with a leading Korean photographer Joo Myung Duck (born in 1940), conducted as a part of the Korean Artist Digital Archive. Joo has had a long photographic career as a photojournalist and documentary photographer and is credited as the most eminent figure in Korean contemporary photography since the 1960s. Joo's photography encompasses documentary, landscape, and portraiture with a focus on views of the nature and cultural legacies of Korea, which epitomized his historic consciousness and aesthetic inspirations. This interview situates Joo Myung Duck within the context of contemporary Korean photography and provides an opportunity to comprehend Korean documentary photography.