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Atta Kim<br />
This book offers the most comprehensive look to date at the work of Atta Kim, one of Korea’s most distinctive<br />
contemporary artists. Atta Kim uses photography to create dramatic, large-scale works that reflect his fascination with<br />
philosophical questions. The “Deconstruction” series (1992–95) features disconcerting images of seemingly lifeless<br />
men and women whose naked bodies are scattered like seeds in open fields and desolate natural settings. In The<br />
Museum Project (1995–2002), Atta Kim poses people drawn from a wide range of social types in clear acrylic boxes<br />
which he places in a variety of urban and natural locations. These images of what he ironically calls “contemporary<br />
treasures” provide an unusual perspective on contemporary approaches to sexuality, materialism, politics, and religion.<br />
For the ON-AIR Project (2002 to the present), Atta Kim employs extended exposures, sometimes lasting twenty-four<br />
hours, to create haunting images that suggest the ephemerality of human existence. This book accompanies a major<br />
exhibition of works from the ON-AIR Project at the International Center of Photography and includes a career-spanning<br />
interview with the artist by ICP curator Christopher Phillips.<br />
Atta Kim was born in South Korea in 1956. He graduated from Changwon University with a Bachelor of Science degree<br />
and has been actively photographing since the mid-1980s. He has held solo shows at the Samsung Photo Gallery,<br />
Seoul; the Nikon Salon Gallery, Tokyo; the Yechong Gallery, Seoul; and has been included in numerous group<br />
exhibitions, including shows at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; The Odense Foto Triennale in<br />
Odense, Denmark; the Australian Centre for Photography; the twenty-fifth São Paulo Biennial; and FotoFest in<br />
Houston.<br />
Exhibition: International Center of Photography, New York, June 9 to August 27, 20<strong>06</strong>.<br />
Atta Kim<br />
Book design by <strong>Steidl</strong> design / Bernard Fischer<br />
152 pages plus one Gatefold with 90 color plates<br />
11.75 x 9.5 in. / 29.7 x 24 cm<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket<br />
US $ 50.00 / £ 30.00 / R 45.00<br />
ISBN 3-86521-311-1<br />
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-311-2<br />
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