RW01-046, 2006, 127x169cm, Digital print
RW01-044, 2006, 127x169 cm, Digital print
RW01-042, 2006, 127x169cm, Digital print
RW01-001, 2004, 127x169 cm, Digital print"Seung Woo Back’s series about miniature architectural models in the city of Seoul comment upon the superficiality of modern society"
- Portofilo Catalouge
"Seung Woo Back received M.F.A. in Photography in Korea and studied Research Fine Art and Theory (PhD, M.A.) in England"
-wordpress.com artist biography
Seung Woo Back's series Real World I is a series of photographs taken at Aiins World, a Korean tourist attraction. The monuments at Aiins World are made 1/25 scale replica of the actual buildings and sites from around the world.The sites are built so that they are photographed to look like they are life sized. Seung Woo Back took photographs there to combine the created monuments with the Korean skyline behind it. This mixing of the two creates a visual pull as you try to figure out what is real and what is a monument. I was a little disappointed after I figured out that these photographs were taken at an amusement park. I felt fooled by the creation of it all and loved how the images fit into the landscape. This is something that I think about very much in my own work. How can the veiwers be fooled? There are only a few successful images that make you think there is something else going on and then you realize that there are created pieces of the image and real pieces.
links:
"백승우 Seung Woo Back « 39조2항 전시 블로그 39(2)." 39조2항 전시 블로그 39(2). 25 Nov. 2008. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. http://a39c2.wordpress.com/category/2-참여작가-artists/백승우-seung-woo-back/.
"Issue 41." Portfolio Catalogue. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. http://www.portfoliocatalogue.com/41/index.php.
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