These Are The Things That Dreams Are Made of

One interesting series of photos by the Korean photographer Jung Yeondoo is based upon the drawings of children as a means of exploring the special vision of children.  As per Yukie Kamiya, Associate curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York):

Yeondoo Jung transforms photography into a magical wand that, with the wave of his hand, casts a magic spell. His photos recreate the dreams of adolescents that he has met in cities around the world. His own world is made up of children’s fantasies scribbled on drawing paper — not a world of reality, but of faded dreams. His photos are careful, imaginative re-creations that bring to life the fragmented stories of people that come his way and tickle his ear and eye. . .

Yeondoo Jung’s site is here.

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9 Comments

  1. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted February 19, 2007 at 7:24 am | Permalink

    The link is broken…Looks like the server couldn’t handled the traffic.

  2. fred_random your flag
    Posted February 19, 2007 at 8:00 am | Permalink

    Will we now get to see photographic re-enactments of Rhie Won-bok’s comic images?

  3. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted February 19, 2007 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    Dag, I guess myself and Geisha killed the man’s site with traffic.

    Cheez, I thought Korea was hooked up and ready to do the internet thing.

  4. railwaycharm your flag
    Posted February 19, 2007 at 1:59 pm | Permalink

    Will we now get to see photographic re-enactments of Rhie Won-bok’s comic images?

    Yes, Mel Gibson has commissioned this artist to create homage to the Jews It take place in Anytown Florida. Izzy and Sheldon are unhappy with breakfast…. “ Izzy can we not get proper locks here?” “Sheldon, I vill call the machugana vaiter” “ Young man hurry up vith our food, and yes! I VANT THAT BAGEL TOASTED!”

  5. railwaycharm your flag
    Posted February 19, 2007 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    . It takes place…..

  6. R. Elgin your flag
    Posted February 20, 2007 at 4:03 am | Permalink

    It is working now. Take a look and ignore the previous postings that I was tempted to delete.

  7. michael your flag
    Posted February 20, 2007 at 8:43 am | Permalink

    His server’s down — looks interesting though.

    Thanks for the post R. Elgin.

    For anyone in Korea who can read the language and is interested in art, this is maybe the best site for gallery listings: http://neolook.com/

  8. tz247 your flag
    Posted February 20, 2007 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    along the same vein, although I don’t think there are any Korean artists involved in these…
    http://www.drawergeeks.com/Kid.....tures.html

  9. terrible dan your flag
    Posted February 22, 2007 at 12:00 pm | Permalink

    I really enjoyed these, thanks for posting ‘em. Another set of thanks to michael as well for post #7, I’d never seen that site before.

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