By Colin Marshall
Last month we present the work of the photographer in Seoul Korea black American street based Michael Korea violated on the blog here. But although these captures all vaccines something essential about the life of the city, most of them representing at least ten years old Seoul - equivalent undoubtedly something such as 25 years of change in Los Angeles. Since then, damage has also changed scenes of pure street in a sort of hybrid between the street and fashion photography, the "visual sociology" that develop all part of a discipline by their scientific work on. Since these two chapters of his career have different images of Korea produces, I thought it best, everyone has to give his own position. If the new series of snapshots was created above subject to life, I knew it was time, they had to be implemented.
"This is a young man, whom I met last night of Fashion Week Seoul," Hurt said. "For me, this kind of image is the epitome of Korean life and what could we call street fashion. One of the reasons I connect very strongly with the actual lies in the fact that with respect to the representation of Korean reality outside Korea because this strong desire is Korean, this reality to the point, to dress up, that it is nothing more than a tourist superficial business. people ask me if these images do good or bad for the people outside Korea, or when I trying to defend something like smoking or sexy or other ridiculous thing. "
And what does it say in response? "The image, save that, especially in young smoking, really are the goods socially more photos and documentaries, which might be taken in this TV and after 1950 -. High Reality" I want my MTV Generation "and the improvement of environmental media Photoshop and YouTube, no one wants to carefully censored, the government organized in 1984 performances esque tourist office of reality. If these old suits could make beards with pictures of traditional Korean dress, dance and flowers Korea fresh look and other shit, would Korea gave fresh decades it.. and that's why I "love this fucking picture
Hurt says more about their priorities in the essay "On the invaluable shot Meaning Seoul fashion street" slowly and appropriately ":" I have come this game as a photographer and University do street photography as a social documentary then in direction of the document is moved to , which seek to change the rules of conduct gender, gender ~~ POS = TRUNC referred Butleriana, then the specific clothing. so looking women as a way as I do, what are essentially "environmental portraits" which happen to be the concern of the clothes, I fear for the first time on the ground and then, as this relationship to have a conversation with the topic. I worry first related second personality of the subject, and the latest clothes. and in the big picture, I try to capture something of the Korean society there on the patient's body hung rags. "
In the picture above, see "culture and trends and means bouncing through the decades and around the dress Pacific, much less. The suku-Jan is between haute couture and the lane of the road, a Korean pronunciation of the Japanese word for Yokosuka, Japan "- a city in revenge bombing of Pearl Harbor -" and the bridge is the show -. dependent highlight in this period through collective street in the world, and now Korea connected to the rest of the world and not in the local media to filter all this is a good sign of how far Korea has become connected in a global conversation, a participate in the designer of Korean high-fashion catwalk. "
Here "the exact representation of gender norms in rapid development in Korea, and an open expression of personal identity of public culture. What image is a living, breathing, dynamic and rejection of the old line company, the women are women and men are men, in terms of gender roles and the limit should never be obliterated. "the fact of a shot allusion" variety of modes of friendship, sexual identity, power and gender ~~ POS = TRUNC. it is also a great and important natural given the oppressive heteronormativity the culture of South Korea, and thus is very refreshing. it is one of the reasons why people Dongdaemun design Plaza during the fashion Week Seoul, cool in terms of clothes and social sense, a pleasure to me are to and helpers are to be living in this culture. "
Hurt the heteronormativity of oppressive Korean society find despite being heterosexual itself, but also found that when it comes to the most daring women to detect style pictures straight up, "my husband eye just allows me to remember what I paralyzes. I am on the "Mode" not worried, but the momentum of his clothes. "and that color" works in a very Korean fashion. it's really scream sex, sex, sex, but it the way you do about US- Embassy could dress simply blaring out literally, Korea to treat fashion sex its presence known to the following, while denying this is what is being done, denying a social everything, "claims ..
This means that "no particular thing someone a large public relatively quiet, the girl in public like pinpointable no problem" and, above all, one who understands that everything established in his suit "an innovative form of Korean cute harmless, even though it has an aesthetic of Hollywood Hooker no one will say. "socks a little Lolita are" or "heel too high" or "this bag makes you look cheap because people with these do not work cultural messages actually could get in trouble in many more sartorially US CONSERVATIVE .. Instinctively I so that all members could come together and make the viewer what you need explained it not so good. "
, And Seoulite was projected as the image of this Hurt described as "just great, and has much more been typical of young Koreans these days that confident attitude image she is doing also many young women what: pick and choose options Freestyle available, so that a mixture of seemingly dissonant elements such as dresses and frilly, feminine roses (the young woman with carry) and dark, emo how esque makeup, mixed together, without irony "is - the irony is, as I have already written, sometimes happy scarce resource here - and in this context especially "hipster glasses influenced hip hop, swagged output fuzzy pink hat".
Hurt like two things about the sensitivity of the screen in this picture, "his youth, exudes innocence and his jacket, which was in development and went with another member of the big fashion, white tennis skirt Two. Birds shot." if taken by the elements as popular as Western curiosity become in Korea, I can assure you that you are not alone. While away through the streets of Seoul, everything and both holding me: "Almost all the thousands of people around me" - women, men, adults, children, the elderly - "Dressed as Westerners."
The thought sends my numbed mind, and then determined to find an explanation, or at least something imaginary picture of what would a modern Seoul apart from the western clothes look. But the spirit of Hurt, the concept of "western" style provided no significance, that the same Korean word for them, yangbok (양복), the medium has come easy to a suit, as opposed to half a binary choice between the west against a Korean official costume, hanbok (한복). "Interestingly, a growing presence of young dressed in Hanbok women on the streets of today Note Seoul, although the shoes are almost always below cons - effect remains somewhat.
"Some aspects of Western fashion have become, this universal also lost the feeling in a binary system from west to east. Take a few ten centimeters high heels, often in the streets of Seoul. Is the" West? and especially so many women take six to eight centimeters heels all the time, even with Hanbok has the distinction unnecessary. Likewise, I think that some people see the car in Korea either as "west", even if it is indeed a Western invention -. such as television, radio or telephone "
In his essay and new photography series "Spring Cherry Blossoms Sogaeting with" Hurt probes on the question of which road can speak about fashion photography Korean culture. "And take this idea further, even street fashion Korean Korea in particular, but is not essential in particular Korea, pattern, or even the marks?" When the famous photographer world of street style of Scott Schuman, aka The Sartorialist, came to Korea, he took not Korean style, but "an increasingly global culture, not culturally specific, well dressed, one that is activated by the world media, the ubiquity of the Internet and the homogenization of taste which many famous visit Korea Schuman many Koreans really mean affected for their visit was the way I got some recognition of the white west, Korea -. the field of Korean fashion, actually - had achieved the coveted status of the real world that is both an object of the society and the state "is.
Touching on historical topics such as Chinese sovereignty, revenge and Pearl Harbor, she moves in the dominant language of power, the gap between the objective of the US military and black "neocolonial Kool-Aid" anticommunism Olympia in 1988 and the emergence of a "global Fetish "Hurt makes the piece an attempt to explain why Where, he asks" increasingly problematic identification Korea Korean photography is street fashion. " "It is the space in a company whose popularity comes primarily from a whole? Where is specific, the Korea Ness in an aesthetic system whose logic and language is expressed in universal terms?" Anything taken under the cherry in a series of photos culminates flowers that now come for the country, the kind of woman who self-expression, the ". oh, so Korean" in his conscious social security "that reserve, pure, unabashed femininity" and describes
happens, however, some of the most fascinating aesthetic developments are now not deep into the cultural traditions, but along cultural boundaries. Before this idea to see pictures of street style Hurt words, I would not have thought, looking at the women's clothing. I follow a few publications with men to do style, an area in which Korea starts to build momentum. Many young Korean men look even dresses, directly or indirectly, for their friends and most of those who have reached a number of respectable age seem boring, utilitarian - strangely often with sneakers color bright accent. (You may have to continue Japan for my magazines male fashion for the foreseeable future.)
As always in modern Korea, style and other ways to lead the way women. (Could leave a big leap for sex, until the 20th century hardly the house.) To the future of this country to see look at it, not only for what they have today. "No clothes and the door," Hurt wrote. "Because fashion is not just about clothes, fashion is part of a larger conversation that is a cultural text, social norms and values, social structures, all of which is defined in the big picture than what we call culture. If you do not everything taken from an image in Street fashion in Korea, is missing something important. "for more information, please visit their pages on Instagram and Flickr and can see your website Deconstructing Korea, who is also a section on the work of his students in sociology Fashion has.
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