
Title: Kim Jong-il Looking At Things
Artist: João Rocha
JBE Books
16.7 x 24 cm
190 pages
Harback
Design by Renaud Othnin-Girard
Essay by Marco Bohr
English & French
Eighth edition
December 2021
ISBN: 978-2-36568-002-8
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“Kim Jong Il Looking at Things” is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. Uninterrupted series of photographs of North Korea's Dear Leader looking at things, this series fascinates with its formal rigor and intensity.
Without removing these photographs their primary function - to raise Kim Jong Il to an iconic rank - this series forces a shift in the purpose of propaganda. The icon changes to taxonomy, the viewer is being watched, and the meaning of this images breaks away.
Accompanied by an essay by Marco Bohr entitled “Looking at Kim Jong Il Looking at Things”, the book reveals the springs of our fascination for these accumulated images on the Internet - these memes - analyzing how a series of apparently innocent photographs become viral and attractive.
- From the publisher’s website
“Kim Jong Il Looking at Things” is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. Uninterrupted series of photographs of North Korea's Dear Leader looking at things, this series fascinates with its formal rigor and intensity.
Without removing these photographs their primary function - to raise Kim Jong Il to an iconic rank - this series forces a shift in the purpose of propaganda. The icon changes to taxonomy, the viewer is being watched, and the meaning of this images breaks away.
Accompanied by an essay by Marco Bohr entitled “Looking at Kim Jong Il Looking at Things”, the book reveals the springs of our fascination for these accumulated images on the Internet - these memes - analyzing how a series of apparently innocent photographs become viral and attractive.
- From the publisher’s website