Park Young-sook

Park Young-sook

History

Feminist photographer Park Young-sook was born in 1941. She studied originally History at the Sookmyung Women's University where she also completed her graduate studies in Photography and Design. She began to exhibit photography works in 1966 and her then extraordinary female awareness was visualized in a certain exhibition, in 1975. It was her solo exhibition organized by 'Women's Association' to commemorate 'International Women's Year', established by the United Nations. Park exhibited various photographs subjectifying social issues including women's reality today under the theme of . From 1981 she continues to be bold and active with her stature as a feminist at the age of 40. Park is best known for her portrait work, "Mad Women Project".

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Park Young-sook

Movies

I'll Be Seeing Her
I'll Be Seeing Her
Herself
"I'll Be Seeing HER" is an approach to images of women in Korean cinema with a new genre, ‘Fanta Docu’, which shows beautiful and adventurous Korean actresses in the 1950s. The director, Kim Soyoung stated that “studying and teaching Korean cinema history, I felt sorry that most documentaries on Korean cinema had been made from the male perspective,” which led her to make a documentary on Korean cinema through women’s eyes. Kim So young directed ‘Women's History Trilogy’ (Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea, I'll Be Seeing Her: Women in Korean Cinema, New Woman: Her First Song) which was screened at many international film festivals including Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.