Kim Jung-man

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BIOGRAPHY[]

Kim Jung Man
Born	(1954-10-30) October 30, 1954 (age 67) Cheorwon County, South Korea
Occupation	Photographer
Korean name
Hangul	김중만
Hanja	金重晩
Revised Romanization	Gim Jung-man
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chung-man

Kim Jung-man (born October 30, 1954) is a South Korean photographer.^[1][2] He is one of Korea’s first generation of photographers who studied abroad and returned home to start a new wave that popularized photography. Kim first left Korea as a teenager following his father, a government doctor dispatched to Burkina Faso, Africa. Leaving his homeland marked the beginning of a long philosophical journey that eventually took him to Europe to study fine art painting, but discovering a lifelong passion for photography while attending École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in France.

In 1979, Kim won the prestigious "Best Young Photographer Award" at Arles International Photography Festival. The same year, he was named one of "Today's 80 Photographers in France," the youngest on the list. He eventually moved back to Korea to regain his roots. In doing so, he found his way into commercial photography in the 1980-90's. In 2000, he was selected one of "33 Men of Culture of Korea" by korea.com and awarded Fashion Photographer of the Year.

Kim recently started gaining recognition for the strength of his artistic works and has battled to overcome a limitation in Korea that suggests photographers are either artistic or commercial, but not both. In leaving fame and his flourishing career as a commercial photographer behind in 2006, he stopped photographing Korea's most famous models, musicians, actors and actresses, instead turning his lens to the countryside of his native land. Rather than enter the discussion of his choice of path as an artist, he chose to remain mostly silent for the past decade.

Korea[]

In 2006, Kim Jung Man broke with this comfortable situation and radically reoriented his career, devoting himself to artistic experimentation that had nothing to do with the commission art on which he and his Studio Velvet Underground had been working. Kim Jung Man also wished to explore a Korean and Asian identity, on a thematic as well as technical level, for example in the printing of photographs on hanji or Korean paper. The hanbok series is a particularly powerful illustration of this work. In these photographs he sought to heighten the aesthetic and poetic dimension of this traditional costume, and also to explore its sensuality and, in some cases, eroticism. This work knowingly perpetuates and explores the Korean past, as signaled sometimes in the use of sepia tones and recurrent references to the often erotic paintings of Shin Yun-bok (circa 1758-after 1813).

When asked why his works aren't well known throughout the world, he answers with his usual steady low tone saying, "I've been working. I've been busy asking myself if I'm enough." Humbly, he shares further, "now, I feel maybe it's time to show my work. What prompted his desire to begin showing his works internationally was the selling of two images to the San Diego based Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) at Paris Photos in Paramount Pictures Studio, Los Angeles in 2013.

Kim has been in the spotlight as a renowned fashion photographer who captures his subjects in the most natural poses, rejecting formulaic customs and angles. In the last 40 years, Kim has taken nearly 800,000 photographs of a wide range of subjects, including flora, fauna, people, landscapes, as well as fashion, through which he has demonstrated unique sensibilities and style. Beginning in the 2010s, Kim turned his attention to Korea’s cultural heritage and nature, and the Korean spirit within, in the expression of which he has perfectly blended elements of pop and classical art.

Solo exhibitions (1975 - 2005)[]

• Debut Exhibition (Atelier Jean Pierre Soardi, Nice / 1975)
• Jung Man Kim (Gallery HanMaDang, Seoul / 1985)
• Beijing Days (Gallery Mac, Seoul / 1990)
• A PROS (Gallery CHOSUN, Seoul / 1991)
• Horizon of Korean Photography (Seoul National Art Museum, Seoul / 1992)
• NEW MORNING (Gallery NINE, Seoul / 1993)
• PHOTOGRAPHY IS PHOTOGRAPHY (Gallery Textile Center, Minneapolis/ 1994)
• PHOTOGRAPHS (Dosan Hall, Los Angeles / 1998)
• Animal's Kingdom (Museum Sungkok, Seoul / 2000)
• Man's Land (IL MARE, Seoul / 2001)
• Men's Land 2 (Gallery 051, Busan / 2002)
• Return To The Paradise (Paradise Hotel, Busan / 2002) Blue Eyes (Gallery Canzi, Busan / 2002)
• After Rain (Hyundai Department Store, Seoul / 2003)
• Man Who's Leg Was Robbed and Thirty Eyes (Daerim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul / 2003)
• Amazing Solitude (Gallery Pyendi Namu, Seoul / 2003)
• What Happens Between Art and Popular Culture (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachun/ 2004)
• Nix-Revolution (Hyundai Department Store, Seoul / 2004)
• Sea Came to Me (Gallery La Mer, Seoul / 2004)
• After Rain (Mitsukoshi Department Store, Tokyo / 2004)
• Korean Express (Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju / 2004)
• KIM JUNGMAN (Gallery White Wall, Seoul / 2004)
• It's a Life For Every Child (Hyundai Department Store, Seoul / 2005)
• Children Of The World (Topohause Gallery, Seoul / 2005)
• The Wind of Korea (Yoshimoto NGK Gallery, Osaka / 2005)
• After Rain, Two Nomads (Gana Art Gallery, Seoul / 2005)
• Ocean, Come to Me (Gallery La Mer, Seoul / 2005)
• Flowers (Indide, Seoul / 2005)
• Anycall Diary (Gallery White Wall, Seoul / 2005)
• THREE CHAMERS (RYU Gallery, Seoul / 2005)
• AFRICA AFRICA (Avenuel Gallery, Seoul / 2005)

Solo exhibitions (2006 - 2018)[]

• SEXUALLY INNOCENT (Gallery Wa, Seoul / 2006)
• Ten Day At The Gobi Desert (Lotte Avenuel Gallery, Seoul / 2006)
• THE ORCHID (OROOM Gallery, Seoul / 2007)
• THE ORCHID (2x13 Gallery, New York / 2007)
• THE BLOSSOM (Pyo Gallery, Beijing / 2008)
• FINDING PARADISE (123 Gallery, Seoul / 2008)
• Africa SAVAGE GARDEN (Gallery Dodeka, Seoul / 2010)
• Africa SAVAGE GARDEN 2 (Gallery Now, Seoul / 2010)
• Paris and Blossoms (Lotte Wine Gallery, Portland / 2010)
• Stone Heart (Lotte Avenuel Gallery, Seoul / 2011)
• Going Far Away Inside of Me (H Art Gallery, Seoul / 2011)
• Times of Silence: ROCKS [STONES, WATERS, TREES and GRASSES] (Gallery Euro, Seoul / 2011)
• Scotland & Scotch Homage to the Exceptional, Royal Salute (Gallery Kong, Seoul / 2011)
• THINKING OF RENE MAGRITTE (Sangsangmadang Gallery, Seoul / 2012)
• EYES OF VEGA (Platoon-Kunsthalle, Seoul / 2013) [CURE EYES PROJECT, CHARITY]
• 5 Days in Singapore (Horim Art Center Seoul Auction, Seoul / 2014) [CHARITY]
• LG G2 Charity Exhibition with Director Park Chan Wook (Platoon-Kunsthalle, Seoul / 2014)
• [CURE EYES PROJECT, CHARITY] (Cernuschi Museum La Nuit Blanche, Paris / 2015)
• Different Dimension-5 (Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk / 2015)
• RED LIGHT or Walking Into Strange Cities and Skies (PNC Gallery, Daegu / 2015)
• KIM JUNG MAN ART SUPERMARKET (Seoul / 2016) [CURE EYES PROJECT, CHARITY]
• CHINA ROOTS (COLUMN Gallery, Seoul / 2016)
• SUN STORM (WORKSOUT, Seoul / 2016)
• KOREAN AND CHINA THROUGH POLAROID (Korean Cultural Center, Hong Kong / 2018)
• STREET OF BROKEN HEART (Hanmi the Photography, Seoul / 2018)

Awards[]

• FASHION PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR (South Korea / 2000)
• The 5th Mark Of Respect Award (ROYAL SALUTE / 2010)
• Cultural Diplomacy Award (Asia Society, Rockefeller 3rd Foundation, New York / 2015)

Collections[]

• NYFA (USA / 2007)
• MOPA (USA / 2012)
• Cernuschi Museum (FRANCE / 2015)
• LOO&LOU Fondation (FRANCE / 2016)

Book publications[]

• 1986 Bulsae - Taemen Publishing
• 1990 Beijing Days - Gallery Mac
• Nukdury - Kim Hyun Shik Lee Jung Sun Music Publishing Company
• 1996 Instant Coffee - Ahn Graphics
• 1999 Animal‘s Kingdom - Gimmyoung Publishing
• 2000 African Journey - Gimmyoung Publishing
• 2001 Infinity - Yoo Sung Jun Gimmyoung Publishing
• Wild Shin Wha - SM Entertainment
• 2002 A Letter to my Polaris - Kang Ta - SM Entertainment
• Je Voudrai Bien Ecouter ta Voix - Sung Si Kyung - CJ Music
• The Constitution of Korea - Ilbit Publishing
• 2003 After Rain 1.2 - So Dam Publishing
• 2004 Sea Came to Me - Noon Bit Publishing
• After Rain - Kodansha Publishing, Japan
• 2005 It’s Alive for Every Child Fashion Insight Publishing
• Flowers - Gana Art Gallery
• Ocean That Drives Me Crazy Yedam Publishing
• Naked Soul - Gimyoungsa Publishing
• Africa Africa - Itreebook Publishing
• 2006 Sexually Innocent - Mimesis Publishing
• 2007 Orchid - Kim Young International
• 2008 Farewell Sadness - Studio Velvet Underground
• 2011 KimJeomSumDraw - The Literature of Literature Publishing
• Times of Silence - Rocks [Stones, Waters, Trees & Grasses] - Today Art
• 2012 Thinking About Rene Magritte Collaboration with Louis Quatorze
• 2013 Can You Hear The Wind Blow - Studio Velvet Underground
• Eyes of Vega - Charity Exhibition
• 2014 Dokdo-Ri 1-96 - Northeast Asian History Foundation
• LG G2 Charity Exhibition with Movie Director Park Chan Wook Charity Exhibition
• 2015 Kim Jungman Pocketbook Are You Going With Me - Yeol Wha Dang
• Four Ways One Road - Desert Moon Publishing
• 5 Days in Singapore - Lonely Planet Korea and Singapore Tourism Board
• 2018 Can You Hear the Wind Blow - Nazraeli Press

References[]

External links[]

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• Kim Jung-man at the Korean Movie Database

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