해강 김규진의 대한제국 황실사진 연구

Abstract

This thesis is based on the results of discovering and introducing a photographs of Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire in the possession of <The Newark Museum of Art> in New Jersey, USA. It was written for the purpose of revealing the photographic activities of Kim Gyujin as a royal photographer of the Korean Empire. <The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives>, which is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in the United States, also was released their photographs of Emperor Gojong and the Crown Prince Sunjong at the era of Korean Empire. The excavation of these photographs held by the two institutions created an opportunity to uncover the reality of the royal photographer Kim Gyujin, who is handed down only through oral tradition in the history of Korean photography. The Emperor Gojong's picture made by Kim Gyujin, which exists as a Vintage Print of 1905 in cultural institutions of U.S.A., provides an important clue to solving several issues in studying and describing the history of early Korean photography. The core themes are the following four. 1. The career of Kim Gyujin as a Royal photographer. Kim Gyujin has founded and operated <Cheonyeondang Photo Studio> in 1907 and opened the era of popular photographic culture. 2. A Possibility of existence of the photographs of Emperor Gojong and Sunjong made during the late Josun. It is generally known to have been taken by Japanese photographers and Western travelers. 3. The route of the release of Korean Empire's royal photographs in Korea and abroad and that's politics means. 4. The technical revel of Korean photography, like the negative process, the printing process, the equipment's like the camera in the 1900s.