[KS] Finding photos
Frank Hoffmann
frank at koreaweb.ws
Fri Jun 16 21:24:36 EDT 2006
As for Na Hye-sôk photos:
The Art (not literature) section of Kyobo Mun'go
will be helpful. You will find a couple of books
on Na Hye-sôk with lots of photos ... and popular
art magazines such as _Wôlgan misul_ and _Art in
Culture_ have run several feature stories about
her since the late 90s. Actually, there are
probably far more than a hundred photos of her
(re)published, most helpful and good for every
abuse one can think of -- even without doing any
more than selecting some. Madonna's MTV clips
look pale against such richness in female types,
many of them staged to the finest detail. Na as
innocent teeny in traditional clothing, Na the
elegant traitor on her pro-Japanese diplomat
husband's side leaving for Manchuria, Na with
expensive fur on her European tour, Na the
fragile and wealthy femme fatale with champaign
and high heels, Na while painting nudes, Na as
independent young westernized intellectual with
round glasses and boyish 1920s American golf
dress, Na after the divorce as stupified Buddhist
novice on demand, and so on.
Unfortunately, there is nobody who has not yet
written about Na, and very many of the
publications that I know of underestimate her
ability as artist (not as writer) and the way she
staged her own performance during much of her
life.
Frank
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