최근 한국사진의 제 양상에 관한 비평적 연구

Abstract

It seems obvious that, on the threshold of the 21st century, Korean photography confronts new aspects of which the precedent can never be found in the past century. One reason is that photography is entering into the center in discourse of art and reflects a trend in art world that in the field of exhibitions or publication, photography is overwhelming, in comparison with other media. The other reason is that the capability of Korean photography since the 1980s, has been enhanced in great scale. This phenomenon is certainly both an opportunity and a pressure to Korean photography. According to how we use and prepare for such opportunity, the future of Korean photography will be depending. To do this, it is important, above all, to comprehend the history of Korean photography and its present features correctly. The thesis analysed, in critical viewpoint, the features of Korean photography from 2000 to 2002, that allow to make an academic evaluation possible, based on dividing its social and cultural background symbolized as digitalization, features of domestic exhibitions revealing photographers’talents to the best, advances into oversea and interchanges, institutional systems that led the development of photography, etc.