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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Many thanks for these interesting and varied
comments.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Perhaps I should clarify why I felt moved to post this
link:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>1. As a general rule: If I run across something
interesting</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>about Korea in a non-Koreanist outlet - eg <EM>The Atlantic
-</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>then I like to spread the word among
fellow-Koreanists,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>lest they would miss it. </FONT><FONT size=4>Don't other
people feel that way?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>It's called <EM>gemeinschaft</EM>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>2. While various political points might be made,
actually</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>my own reaction this time was primarily
<STRONG>aesthetic</STRONG>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In a new book hot off the press*, Kate Hext and I
ponder</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>what is involved in <EM>making art of the DPRK</EM> as one
form of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>engagement. There's a lot of this now, and it's very
various.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>What really grabbed me was Guttenfelder's o so
painterly</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>first shot in the sequence. Those astonishing blue
hues!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>3. I am well aware, as I imagine are many on this
list</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- but perhaps not all, which is why it's comradely to share
-</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>that there are now thousands of interesting </FONT><FONT size=4>images of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>North Korea available. Flickr alone has
Kernbeisser,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Ray Cunningham and many others. The latter kindly</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>links to his own favourite photographers of the
DPRK here:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A href="https://sites.google.com/site/northkoreaobservations/home">https://sites.google.com/site/northkoreaobservations/home</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>There are books of photographs too. I count </FONT><FONT size=4>at least five </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>coffee-table large-format </FONT><FONT size=4>picture books of
North Korea. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>It's interesting to compare them, </FONT><FONT size=4>as I did
briefly in a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>long working paper for the aforementioned </FONT><FONT size=4>book chapter.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This section I take the liberty of appending.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>4. Finally, even the world's priciest photographer has got
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>in on </FONT><FONT size=4>the NK act. Hext and I discuss
this in our chapter. See also</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A href="http://www.mattlippiatt.co.uk/Andreas%20Gursky.htm">http://www.mattlippiatt.co.uk/Andreas%20Gursky.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>All in all, there really is a bit more to this topic than
just</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>'yeah yeah, been there, done that, got the
tee-shirt.'</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=3>Aidan
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Honorary Senior Research
Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>E</SPAN></EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-style: italic" lang=EN-GB>: <A title=mailto:afostercarter@aol.com href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com">afostercarter@aol.com</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><A title=mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com">afostercarter@yahoo.com</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria">W</SPAN></EM>: <A title=http://www.aidanfc.net/ href="http://www.aidanfc.net/">www.aidanfc.net</A><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Skype</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria; COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>: <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Aidan.Foster.Carter <EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria">Twitter:</SPAN></EM> <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>@fcaidan <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><FONT size=4><EM><FONT face=Candara>* </FONT></EM><STRONG>DPRKrazy, Sexy, Cool: The
Art of Engaging North Korea. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><STRONG><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"></SPAN></STRONG><FONT size=4>Ch. 2, pp 31-50 in
Rüdiger Frank (Ed.), <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Exploring North Korean Arts</I></B><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">. </I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Nuremberg: Verlag
für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, for Vienna University/MAK,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>2011.
</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=4><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB>Available from the latter at </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.makdesignshop.at/index.php?cat=8&page=8&id=1615">http://www.makdesignshop.at/index.php?cat=8&page=8&id=1615</A>
(It d</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=4><SPAN lang=EN-GB>oesn't seem to be on Amazon yet.)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=4>_______________________________</FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=4></FONT></o:p></SPAN> </P><SPAN style="COLOR: black" lang=EN-GB><o:p><FONT size=4>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Every
picture tells a story<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">[Paragraph on Guy Delisle</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn1" name=_ftnref1><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">[1]</SPAN></B></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"> omitted]<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">More common are photographic books about North Korea,
some seeking to make art of it in their own way. In <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Last Paradise </I>(2003) Nicolas
Righetti, a Swiss photojournalist, sets<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>images often garish and grainy – some taken from video – alongside
snippets of text and commentary (official and unofficial) printed in white on a
green background. The effect is striking, if unsettling. At least two Amazon
customers missed the point, complaining that the pictures are poor quality; but
others defend him as “puckish.” A later book on Turkmenistan – where else! – is
similar in conception, but the photography appears more conventional. </FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn2" name=_ftnref2><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[2]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">By contrast, the images in the British photographer
Charlie Crane’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Welcome to Pyongyang
</I>(2007) are crystal clear. The book itself is more ambiguous. The ubiquitous
Nick Bonner is credited as “collaborator and producer,” so at one level this
could be read as a puff for Koryo Tours; the book begins with a “Welcome to
Korea” from an official tourism guidebook.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>The photographs are sites on Pyongyang’s tourist trail, often with a
posed guide or employee whose presumed voice (not actually in quotation marks)
is the sole caption or explanation. Thus Yong Ran, incongruous in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">hanbok</I> in front of a large machine at
the Three Revolutions Exhibition: “All the parts of this electronically
controlled hydraulic excavator are made in my country.” (About half way through;
the book has no index, contents list or pagination.) </FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">Bonner says in his introduction: “What we present [here]
is Pyongyang on its own terms.” Whereas most works considered above would be
anathema to the DPRK, this book no doubt must pass muster with the authorities.
Fair enough; and intriguing to learn that “There are no photography exhibitions
[in North Korea] for aesthetic purposes only. Photography is not regarded as an
art form in its own right.” But Bonner is on thinner ice in telling the would-be
visitor: “There is little background reading that will help prepare you … You
would be better advised to travel with an open mind.” Does that mean an empty
mind? Or is there a sub-text: Of course we know and they know that this is all
theatre, so just relax and enjoy the show?</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn3" name=_ftnref3><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[3]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
We have come a long way from Chris Marker</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn4" name=_ftnref4><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[4]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">,
half a century earlier – and not forwards.</FONT></P>
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<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman">There is competition here from at least three other
photo-essay books on North Korea: by Philippe Chancel,</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn5" name=_ftnref5><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[5]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
Mark Edward Harris,</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn6" name=_ftnref6><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[6]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
and Christian Kracht et al.</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn7" name=_ftnref7><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[7]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
Space precludes a detailed review. Chancel’s award-winning work gives a wider if
still somewhat sanitised – unlike the accompanying texts – view of Pyongyang.
Harris ventures outside the capital, and beyond Sunday-best appearances; he has
since published a similar book on Iran. Kracht is a well-known German
controversialist; his essay, accompanying photographs by Eva Munz and Lukas
Nikol, depicts North Korea as a “maniacal theatric play.” Who knew? The real
lives of most North Koreans, far from Pyongyang, hardly make such coffee-table
fodder. But plenty of images can be found online, from the everyday to the
desperate.</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn8" name=_ftnref8><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[8]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">
Flickr alone has over 48,000 photographs of the DPRK, including the fine work of
Eric Lafforgue.</FONT><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftn9" name=_ftnref9><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=4>[9]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref1" name=_ftn1><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[1]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Guy
Delisle, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Pyongyang: A Journey in North
Korea. </I>Montréal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2005. (First published in French,
2003.) Also <A href="http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/newsList.php?item=a43204677c3785">www.drawnandquarterly.com/newsList.php?item=a43204677c3785</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref2" name=_ftn2><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[2]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Nicolas Righetti,
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Last Paradise: North Korea
</I>Brooklyn NY: Umbrage, 2003. Slideshow and article at </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=4114">http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=4114</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB> . More images – be
sure to enlarge – at </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.photoeye.com/BookteaseLight/bookteaselight.cfm?catalog=PY111ℑ=1">http://www.photoeye.com/BookteaseLight/bookteaselight.cfm?catalog=PY111&image=1</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB> . For complaints
and defence, see </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.amazon.com/Last-Paradise-Nicolas-Righetti/dp/1884167322">http://www.amazon.com/Last-Paradise-Nicolas-Righetti/dp/1884167322</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB> For Righetti’s
images of Turkmenistan, see slideshow at<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.lensculture.com/righetti.html">http://www.lensculture.com/righetti.html</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref3" name=_ftn3><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[3]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Charlie Crane, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Welcome to Pyongyang. </I>London: Boot,
2007. </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-element: footnote" id=ftn4>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref4" name=_ftn4><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[4]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Both the
original text of his extraordinary </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Coréennes
</SPAN></I><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>(Paris: Seuil, 1959) and Marker’s reflections 38 years later can be
read in English at </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.markertext.com/coreenes.htm">http://www.markertext.com/coreenes.htm</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>. A recent Korean
edition (Seoul: Noonbit, 2008) is available at </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/chmaco.html">http://store.wexnercenterstore.com/chmaco.html</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref5" name=_ftn5><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[5]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> Philippe Chancel,
with texts by Michel Poivert and Jonathan Fenby, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">North Korea</I>. London: Thames & Hudson
2006. Many of his images can be seen at </FONT><A href="http://www.philippechancel.com/"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://www.philippechancel.com</FONT></A><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> .</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-element: footnote" id=ftn6>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref6" name=_ftn6><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[6]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Mark Edward
Harris, with a foreword by Bruce Cumings, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Inside North Korea</I>. San Francisco:
Chronicle, 2007 . Some images available at <A href="http://www.markedwardharris.com/gallery_NKorea.html">http://www.markedwardharris.com/gallery_NKorea.html</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
<DIV style="mso-element: footnote" id=ftn7>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref7" name=_ftn7><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[7]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB>Christian Kracht,
Eva Munz, Lukas Nikol, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Ministry of
Truth: Kim Jong Il’s North Korea. </I>Los Angeles: Feral House, 2007 (Original:
</SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Die totale
Erinnerung</SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">: </SPAN></B><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Kim Jong Ils
Nordkorea</SPAN></I><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">. </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Rogner & Bernhard, 2006). See also <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/15/korea.photography">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/15/korea.photography</A>
and <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jan/15/photography.korea">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2008/jan/15/photography.korea</A>
for images and discussion</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref8" name=_ftn8><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[8]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Fine collections include
</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html">www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/04/peering_into_north_korea.html</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB> and </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html">www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html</A></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoFootnoteText><A style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9" title="" href="aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ftnref9" name=_ftn9><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="mso-special-character: footnote"><SPAN class=MsoFootnoteReference><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT size=3>[9]</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"> </FONT><A href="http://www.ericlafforgue.com/dprk.htm"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://www.ericlafforgue.com/dprk.htm</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></FONT></o:p></SPAN>
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<H1><FONT size=3>Re [KS] Striking photographs of the DPRK from AP's David
Guttenfelder, in The Atlantic</FONT></H1><B>McCann, David</B><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A title="[KS] Striking photographs of the DPRK from AP's David Guttenfelder, in The Atlantic" href="mailto:koreanstudies%40koreaweb.ws?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BKS%5D%20Striking%20photographs%20of%20the%20DPRK%20from%0A%09AP%27s%09David%09Guttenfelder%2C%20in%20The%20Atlantic&In-Reply-To=%3CB21BB02B-435A-4F2B-AFCD-0E0F347F7944%40fas.harvard.edu%3E">dmccann
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<PRE style="WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap">Isn't there a curious irony to the notion that on the one hand North
Korea has a reputation for being forbidden or inaccessible, while on
the other, any paying customer can visit the places the AP reporter
photoed? Especially given the fact that "large parts of North
Korea ... are off-limits."
The challenge of these notions, though, is to determine where the
crux of the irony is located. What plays against what else for ironic
effect? For one set I would propose "sign up on a tour" versus
"forbidden or inaccessible to foreigners."
I have also heard it reported on good authority-- a former NASA
astronaut with three space flights and continuing work with the
Agency-- that in the not-too-distant future, space flights, earth
orbit or eventually even the moon, will be available to anyone who can
pay to go.
What precisely is the point that Charles and Michael seem to wish to
register? That any schmuck with a camera can take pictures of those
government-approved places and those people in North Korea? I think,
ironically, that Aidan made exactly that same point, only-- as Charles
and Michael both noted-- they were indeed done well.
David McCann
On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Charles K. Armstrong wrote:
><I> With all due respect to Aidan, I agree with Michael that there wasn't
</I>><I> anything particularly unprecedented or striking about the subject
</I>><I> matter of the photos, although they were done well. There is a
</I>><I> widespread notion that North Korea remains forbidden or inaccessible
</I>><I> to foreigners, and while there are certainly large parts of North
</I>><I> Korea that are off-limits, pretty much any paying customer from North
</I>><I> America or Europe can sign up on a tour and see the sights that the AP
</I>><I> reporters visited.
</I>><I> --
</I>><I> Charles K. Armstrong
</I>><I> Professor of History
</I>><I> Director, Center for Korean Research
</I>><I> Columbia University
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</I>><I> Quoting "Robinson, Michael E." <<A href="http://koreaweb.ws/mailman/listinfo/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws">robime at indiana.edu</A>>:
</I>><I>
</I>>><I> These are very nice, but not new scenes. Very standard by my eye,
</I>>><I> but nice to have a professional do them.
</I>>><I>
</I>>><I> Mike Robinson
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</I>>><I> From: <A href="http://koreaweb.ws/mailman/listinfo/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws">koreanstudies-bounces at koreaweb.ws</A>
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</I>>><I> Subject: [KS] Striking photographs of the DPRK from AP's David
</I>>><I> Guttenfelder, in The Atlantic
</I>>><I>
</I>>><I> <A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/">http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/</A>
</I>>><I>
</I>>><I> Inside North Korea
</I>>><I> AUG 2, 2011 |
</I>>><I> 148<<A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/#disqus_thread">http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/#disqus_thread</A>
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</I>>><I> Earlier this year, David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for
</I>>><I> the Associated Press, along with Jean H. Lee, AP bureau chief in
</I>>><I> Seoul, were granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea as
</I>>><I> part of the AP's efforts to expand coverage of the isolated
</I>>><I> communist nation. The pair made visits to familiar sites accompanied
</I>>><I> by government minders, and were also allowed to travel into the
</I>>><I> countryside accompanied by North Korean journalists instead of
</I>>><I> government officials. Though much of what the AP journalists saw was
</I>>><I> certainly orchestrated, their access was still remarkable.
</I>>><I> Collected here are some of Guttenfelder's images from the trip that
</I>>><I> provide a glimpse of North Korea. [37
</I>>><I> photos<<A href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/">http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/08/inside-north-korea/100119/</A>
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