Kim Jong Il Looking at Things - Hardcover

Bohr, Marco

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 236568002X ISBN 13: 9782365680028

Publisher: Jean Boīte Éditions, 2014

Synopsis

Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr blogs in recent years. Created by Joćo Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a collection of photographs which depict the former “Dear Leader” of North Korea, often accompanied by military personnel or senior advisers, engaged in the act of looking at things. Since its creation in October 2010, Rocha has posted photographs appropriated from the North Korean Central News Agency, which he matches with deadpan captions: “looking at cows”; “looking at blue rods”; “looking at pastry”; “looking at a metalworker”; “looking at a DVD labeling machine.” This hilarious book collects a series of the blog’s most memorable photographs and includes an essay by visual culture writer Marco Bohr.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jean Boīte Éditions
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 236568002X
• ISBN 13: 9782365680028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Rocha Joćo