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Nude Art Director Park Seon-ah's Perspective on Beauty And the story surrounding photography, the 'elegant language' that expresses it “People who pursue beauty have muscles in their eyes.” An essay by author Seon-ah Park, art director at Gentle Monster's F&B brand Nudeake, about the "sense of the eye" that captures beauty, the "muscles of the eye" slowly developed through long experience and learning, and photography, the "elegant language" that emerges through it. I captured the multi-layered story surrounding photography, which has been a long-time hobby and now serves as another tool for expressing the stories I want to tell, with photos I took myself. Link https://youtu.be/u3jbvz5lahk |
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index
prolog
sense of learning
Is a small camera enough? | Looking with a still mind | Teacher, my teacher | Do I really need to go to a museum? | Perhaps, slowly and for a long time throughout life | Freedom that cannot be chosen | Black and white and stubbornness | The first letter.
Kim Jum-seon
Life and Eyes
The Muscles of the Eye | When We Recognize Each Other Without Language | What We Do to Forget Being Alone | If We Could Transcend Time and Space | Drunken Photos | Dinner with Grandma | The Room I Slept In | Strange Seasons | The Second Letter
Hirokazu Koreeda
Beautiful misunderstanding
About the missed moment | A photographer I met in Paris | Sitting in the cracks of time | Beyond the hole | A pre-determined 60th birthday gift | Some wrinkles | The third letter.
Agnes Varda
Epilogue
sense of learning
Is a small camera enough? | Looking with a still mind | Teacher, my teacher | Do I really need to go to a museum? | Perhaps, slowly and for a long time throughout life | Freedom that cannot be chosen | Black and white and stubbornness | The first letter.
Kim Jum-seon
Life and Eyes
The Muscles of the Eye | When We Recognize Each Other Without Language | What We Do to Forget Being Alone | If We Could Transcend Time and Space | Drunken Photos | Dinner with Grandma | The Room I Slept In | Strange Seasons | The Second Letter
Hirokazu Koreeda
Beautiful misunderstanding
About the missed moment | A photographer I met in Paris | Sitting in the cracks of time | Beyond the hole | A pre-determined 60th birthday gift | Some wrinkles | The third letter.
Agnes Varda
Epilogue
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A small camera can help you be honest when you want to lie.
A single lens cannot shorten the distance between me and the subject.
Since we can't 'zoom in' on what's happening in the distance, we just have to capture it as it is.
If you want to take a closer picture, you have to walk closer on your own feet, and if you don't have the courage to do that, you have to keep your distance.
Things that are familiar enough to be approached are close, and things that are unfamiliar and must be viewed from afar are far away.
The subjects I take pictures of are mostly people around me that I like.
A palm-sized camera is also helpful when you want to capture memorable scenes with them.
---From "Is a Small Camera Enough?"
Learning gained by simply reading and watching quickly without the time to follow is certainly short-lived.
Perhaps that's why rooms and monitors often fail to be considerate assistants.
When you go to a museum or travel to see an exhibition, you can stay within a structure that allows those who have deeply explored art to fully enjoy it.
You will receive more sincere help to utilize various senses that are not used in front of the computer.
---From "Do I really need to go to the museum?"
While interning at the university library's Arts and Sciences Reference Room, I would occasionally look through photo albums and save up money to buy books I couldn't find there.
Doing that made me feel like I was a very special person.
Even though I usually thought of myself as cosmic dust, at times like these, I felt like I alone knew the secrets of the universe.
Although no one recognized or cared about me, at that time, the most important thing to me was to be a beautiful person in my own eyes.
I wanted to never forget the arrogance I knew back then, but these days I often forget it.
---From "Perhaps slowly and for a long time throughout a lifetime"
Stubbornness is considered the privilege of the possessed.
Only those who have deeply contemplated the countless confusions and temptations surrounding the existence of 'I' can distinguish between what is mine and what is not mine.
If the reason is too vague or shallow, it can become stubbornness, so it is something that requires caution.
Those who observe various phenomena in the world but still have their own stubbornness are always beautiful.
---From "Black and White and Stubbornness"
It is too greedy to want to see more as you move.
If you stop and observe the speed of others, you may come across scenes you want to capture.
I don't record every moment, but I do take pictures of the rare moments that catch my eye.
There is no need to be impatient because it is stopped.
I take out a small camera from my pocket or bag and carefully press the shutter.
Don't run to close the distance or hide somewhere to take a better picture.
When that happens, I leave behind the things that shook my heart to that extent.
---From "Things to do to forget that you are alone"
I have always hoped, and still hope, that I would become an adult who silently shows the wrinkles that have taken time to build, like a well-aged hotel.
By then, will the corner of one eye where the camera is pointed be darker than the other?
I wait with a heart free from hatred for the pretty, beautiful, and elegant wrinkles that are not yet mine.
A single lens cannot shorten the distance between me and the subject.
Since we can't 'zoom in' on what's happening in the distance, we just have to capture it as it is.
If you want to take a closer picture, you have to walk closer on your own feet, and if you don't have the courage to do that, you have to keep your distance.
Things that are familiar enough to be approached are close, and things that are unfamiliar and must be viewed from afar are far away.
The subjects I take pictures of are mostly people around me that I like.
A palm-sized camera is also helpful when you want to capture memorable scenes with them.
---From "Is a Small Camera Enough?"
Learning gained by simply reading and watching quickly without the time to follow is certainly short-lived.
Perhaps that's why rooms and monitors often fail to be considerate assistants.
When you go to a museum or travel to see an exhibition, you can stay within a structure that allows those who have deeply explored art to fully enjoy it.
You will receive more sincere help to utilize various senses that are not used in front of the computer.
---From "Do I really need to go to the museum?"
While interning at the university library's Arts and Sciences Reference Room, I would occasionally look through photo albums and save up money to buy books I couldn't find there.
Doing that made me feel like I was a very special person.
Even though I usually thought of myself as cosmic dust, at times like these, I felt like I alone knew the secrets of the universe.
Although no one recognized or cared about me, at that time, the most important thing to me was to be a beautiful person in my own eyes.
I wanted to never forget the arrogance I knew back then, but these days I often forget it.
---From "Perhaps slowly and for a long time throughout a lifetime"
Stubbornness is considered the privilege of the possessed.
Only those who have deeply contemplated the countless confusions and temptations surrounding the existence of 'I' can distinguish between what is mine and what is not mine.
If the reason is too vague or shallow, it can become stubbornness, so it is something that requires caution.
Those who observe various phenomena in the world but still have their own stubbornness are always beautiful.
---From "Black and White and Stubbornness"
It is too greedy to want to see more as you move.
If you stop and observe the speed of others, you may come across scenes you want to capture.
I don't record every moment, but I do take pictures of the rare moments that catch my eye.
There is no need to be impatient because it is stopped.
I take out a small camera from my pocket or bag and carefully press the shutter.
Don't run to close the distance or hide somewhere to take a better picture.
When that happens, I leave behind the things that shook my heart to that extent.
---From "Things to do to forget that you are alone"
I have always hoped, and still hope, that I would become an adult who silently shows the wrinkles that have taken time to build, like a well-aged hotel.
By then, will the corner of one eye where the camera is pointed be darker than the other?
I wait with a heart free from hatred for the pretty, beautiful, and elegant wrinkles that are not yet mine.
---From "Some Wrinkles"
Publisher's Review
It's just the right size for my heart
When I discovered some beauty
Author Seon-ah Park, who worked as an editor and content director, now delivers messages by telling stories from a more complex perspective as an art director.
The name of the job may have changed in the meantime, but the fact that it is “a job that seeks beauty” remains unchanged.
If the author's previous essays, such as "To a Name" and "Sometimes Adults Walk Sadly," describe the beauty found in everyday scenes and objects, his new work, "Elegant Language," contains a serious and intimate story about the sense of capturing beauty and the gaze itself.
The author says that during a time when he was very lonely, he liked how things like photography, music, literature, and movies helped him understand his feelings that he couldn't express to anyone else.
In this way, I was captivated by a photo or painting that was “just the right size for my heart,” and naturally became interested in aesthetics, which led me to take classes.
While interning at the university library's Arts and Sciences Reference Room, I would occasionally browse photo albums and save up money to buy books I couldn't find there.
I was preparing to study abroad to study aesthetics in earnest, but circumstances forced me to get a job midway through. Looking back, I realize that everything I've done so far is closely related to art and not far removed from the word "aesthetics."
Because aesthetics “comes from the marvel and wonder of aesthetic or artistic phenomena in nature and life.”
Doing the work of exploring beauty
People have eye muscles
Just as it takes muscles to do ballet, it also takes 'eye muscles' to capture beauty.
Of course, it may not be as visible as other muscles and may feel overwhelming or frustrating.
However, as can be guessed from the author's frequent encounters with the works of his favorite photographers through photo albums and exhibitions, within a "structure designed to allow those who have deeply explored art to fully enjoy them," seeking out and attending photography classes, and diligently reading books on photography and art, "the more you see, the more you can see, and without realizing it, you build muscles."
So this book is also a story about 'learning' that continues slowly and for a long time throughout one's life.
As we follow the author's journey of learning, including the wisdom he gained from attending and discussing the 'Photographic Aesthetics' class with Professor Taehee Park, who now runs a photography gallery and publishing company called 'Anmok' during his college years, the lessons he learned from attending film developing classes, the impressions he gained from encountering the works of masters at museums, the serious yet intense conversations with photographers and colleagues, and the letters he wrote to artists he admired, we can glimpse the process of sharpening his perspective on beauty.
Ambiguous and taciturn,
Having a hobby of elegant language
Photography, a long-time hobby of the author, has now become another 'language' for expressing beauty, in addition to writing.
The author says that when someone asks him what he wants to write, he answers that he wants to write something memorable, like a photograph.
“You can write a lot, but if you write everything down, there will come a day when you won’t be able to write anything.
When I hate myself for writing, it comforts me to know that I have a hobby of taking pictures.
It's fortunate that scenes I've seen are piled up without explanation, just like scenes from a stopped movie are piled up in a folder.
“The fact that I can have this vague, taciturn language as a hobby.”
And I add the adjective ‘elegant’ to the vague and taciturn language of photography.
Looking at a box of photographic paper, I think of 'an elegant tool', looking at the 'elegant way' of putting something in a chemical and shaking it, looking at the seconds ticking by on the red clock in the darkroom, I think of 'an elegant time'.
The person talking about the photo, the equipment that handled it, and the attitude of interpreting it were all elegant.
And I encourage those who read this book to find their own 'elegant language'.
On days when the precise and clear power of words and writing feels burdensome, I can carefully take out the elegant language hidden in a corner.
When I discovered some beauty
Author Seon-ah Park, who worked as an editor and content director, now delivers messages by telling stories from a more complex perspective as an art director.
The name of the job may have changed in the meantime, but the fact that it is “a job that seeks beauty” remains unchanged.
If the author's previous essays, such as "To a Name" and "Sometimes Adults Walk Sadly," describe the beauty found in everyday scenes and objects, his new work, "Elegant Language," contains a serious and intimate story about the sense of capturing beauty and the gaze itself.
The author says that during a time when he was very lonely, he liked how things like photography, music, literature, and movies helped him understand his feelings that he couldn't express to anyone else.
In this way, I was captivated by a photo or painting that was “just the right size for my heart,” and naturally became interested in aesthetics, which led me to take classes.
While interning at the university library's Arts and Sciences Reference Room, I would occasionally browse photo albums and save up money to buy books I couldn't find there.
I was preparing to study abroad to study aesthetics in earnest, but circumstances forced me to get a job midway through. Looking back, I realize that everything I've done so far is closely related to art and not far removed from the word "aesthetics."
Because aesthetics “comes from the marvel and wonder of aesthetic or artistic phenomena in nature and life.”
Doing the work of exploring beauty
People have eye muscles
Just as it takes muscles to do ballet, it also takes 'eye muscles' to capture beauty.
Of course, it may not be as visible as other muscles and may feel overwhelming or frustrating.
However, as can be guessed from the author's frequent encounters with the works of his favorite photographers through photo albums and exhibitions, within a "structure designed to allow those who have deeply explored art to fully enjoy them," seeking out and attending photography classes, and diligently reading books on photography and art, "the more you see, the more you can see, and without realizing it, you build muscles."
So this book is also a story about 'learning' that continues slowly and for a long time throughout one's life.
As we follow the author's journey of learning, including the wisdom he gained from attending and discussing the 'Photographic Aesthetics' class with Professor Taehee Park, who now runs a photography gallery and publishing company called 'Anmok' during his college years, the lessons he learned from attending film developing classes, the impressions he gained from encountering the works of masters at museums, the serious yet intense conversations with photographers and colleagues, and the letters he wrote to artists he admired, we can glimpse the process of sharpening his perspective on beauty.
Ambiguous and taciturn,
Having a hobby of elegant language
Photography, a long-time hobby of the author, has now become another 'language' for expressing beauty, in addition to writing.
The author says that when someone asks him what he wants to write, he answers that he wants to write something memorable, like a photograph.
“You can write a lot, but if you write everything down, there will come a day when you won’t be able to write anything.
When I hate myself for writing, it comforts me to know that I have a hobby of taking pictures.
It's fortunate that scenes I've seen are piled up without explanation, just like scenes from a stopped movie are piled up in a folder.
“The fact that I can have this vague, taciturn language as a hobby.”
And I add the adjective ‘elegant’ to the vague and taciturn language of photography.
Looking at a box of photographic paper, I think of 'an elegant tool', looking at the 'elegant way' of putting something in a chemical and shaking it, looking at the seconds ticking by on the red clock in the darkroom, I think of 'an elegant time'.
The person talking about the photo, the equipment that handled it, and the attitude of interpreting it were all elegant.
And I encourage those who read this book to find their own 'elegant language'.
On days when the precise and clear power of words and writing feels burdensome, I can carefully take out the elegant language hidden in a corner.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: April 5, 2023
- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide
- Page count, weight, size: 228 pages | 188g | 96*144*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791168126046
- ISBN10: 1168126045
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