Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Joao Rocha & Marco Rohr
Hardcover
Publisher: Jean Boîte Éditions.
ISBN: 978-2365680028
Dimensions: 16.7 x 2.9 x 24 cm
Pages: 192
€40
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr in recent years. An 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.