1950년대 후반 한국 리얼리즘 사진의 시각성 : 한영수의 1957년부터 1960년까지의 사진

Abstract

This paper investigates the visuality on Korean realism photography during late 1950s through the analysis of Han, Young-Soo’s photographs, so that it can open the discourse about the birth of contemporary Korean Photography. For this reason, the purpose of the paper lies not in presenting the concrete conclusion of the visuality on Korean realism photography but in revealing its performative structure. Hence, this paper will focuses on the implications of societal sight and photographer’s vision presented in Han, Young-Soo’s photographs, as well as, on his inclusive and exclusive vision compared to other realism photographers’ of the time. Throughout this analysis on his works, invisible cultural phenomena which produced performative subjectivity during late 1950s enlighten us the haziness of modernity and early visual culture in those days in South Korea, wherein lies the re-contextualization of invisible societal fluency as the result of traumatic memory from the past and acculturation at that time.