참여적 자화상으로서의 인물사진 : Being a Queen, Face of Face 시리즈를 중심으로

Abstract

The requirements for portrait photography are premised on the fact that the photographer and the subject are together in one space. In other words, a photographic image is formed as a single overall result through small and large interactions and empathy in space and time where the photographer and the subject person coexist. The two photographic series to be introduced in this article both have the structure of the process of acting (performance) and the image as their result. And the process of making a photo is not aimed at capturing any moment or finding and recording the characteristics of a person, and the conditions for who the subject will be are given regardless of their appearance. Rather, it is made up of voluntary ‘choice’ and ‘participation’ by those who want to understand and participate in the conditions given by the artist, and as a result of their act of participation, the characters ultimately experience the way they see themselves. The author sees these processes and technical conditions as the meaning of ‘self-portrait as participation’. In this paper, Korean and foreign theorists introduced and interpreted the process from the conception stage to the production process and exhibition in Europe and Korea of the project Being a Queen (2007/2009) realized in Denmark and Face of Face (2016) produced in Korea. I would like to present the expanded possibilities of photographic expression of how people in front of the camera look at themselves, along with examples of their perspectives, as well as the participatory act, the perception of time in it, and how the people in front of the camera view themselves.