가족사진 형식을 차용한 예술사진 연구 - 연작 <New-Family Portrait>와 <新 한국의 가족> 작업을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Family is the reason and purpose of life for many people. But for some, the family could be a group that you can force the ideal role of a family member and constantly demands duty and sacrifice. My experience of a personal complex with family naturally led to an interest in the stereotypes of ‘family photography’, which only shows the ideal appearance of “family” in a large concept. Therefore, I studied the history of family photography and the formality of family and completed the series <New-Family Portrait> (2019) and <New Korean Family> (2020) through various explorations and experimental images. I observed that many family photographs are very similar because the form of formal family photography is implicitly defined, and taken within that fixed format. We have watched the many images of ideal families defined by society for a long time, and trained by these images, prejudices against the concept of the family have naturally emerged. These stereotypes impoverish the imagination of family photographs and make the viewer prejudiced. The purpose of this study is to express the strong stereotypes of family photographs through two pseudofamily photograph series, <New-Family Portrait> which is reconstructed from amateur family photographs and <New Korean Family> which is reconstructed from documentary photographs by Joo Myung-Duck. I aim to break apart the stereotypical forms of family photographs through the two experimental series of work by creating fictional families and raise questions about the meaning of family today. key