'This publication surveys the remarkable photographic work of the Korean artist Atta Kim. Notable for their cinematic scale, dramatic composition, and meticulous technical quality, his photographs count among the most high-impact works to be found anywhere. But their visual seductiveness is ultimately a kind of lure, which the artist employs to draw viewers into unfamiliar realms of speculative thought.
The present book provides a comprehensive overview of Atta Kim's photographs since the mid-1980s, with special emphasis on his current ON-AIR Project. In the ON-AIR photographs, the artist employs extremely long exposures, sometimes lasting as long as twenty-four hours, to create works that explore fundamental questions of time and perception. Through highly unconventional images of such varied subjects as erotic coupling, the militarized landscape along the Korean DMZ, and the seemingly deserted midday precincts of Times Square, he suggests that it is possible for us to imagine duration in ways that are radically different from our everyday experience. In a wide-ranging interview that appears in this volume, Atta Kim explains how such photographic works have arisen from his long-term engagement with philosophical, spiritual, and technological questions.' — from the front flap

Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Atta Kim: ON-AIR' organized by the International Center of Photography, New York, June to August 2006. Artist biography included.
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Onsite

Location code
MONL.KIA
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

152

ISBN / ISSN

9783865213112

No of copies

1

Content type

artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Introduction - Christopher PHILLIPS

The Density of Time: An Interview with Atta Kim

Atta Kim: ON-AIR
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Atta Kim: ON-AIR