Water Does Not Soak in Rain

Atta Kim
9783775723749 / 3775723749
Water Does Not Soak in Rain

Water Does Not Soak in Rain

Atta Kim
9783775723749 / 3775723749
Publisher Hatje Cantz 2009
Edition Hardcover , 412 pages
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Water Does Not Soak in Rain surveys 25 years of works from the internationally-acclaimed South Korean photographer Atta Kim. Since the mid-1980s, Kim (born 1956) has evolved and practiced a singular life-philosophy through a personal synthesis of the teachings of German philosopher Martin Heidegger, Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff and Zen Buddhism. The works that Kim produced after ten years of formal training in these teachings–which include his series In der-Welt-sein (1991), Deconstruction (1995) and The Museum Project (1995-2002), in which he created a private museum by placing figures in Plexiglas boxes–are described by him as “byproducts” or expressions of this Weltanschauung. The guiding motto or aphorism of the On-Air project is simply this: “all things eventually disappear.” Kim’s most recent series compresses 10,000 images of a city into one image, and represents the project’s culmination.

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Book title Water Does Not Soak in Rain
Photographer Atta Kim
ISBN 10 3775723749 / 3-7757-2374-9       
ISBN 13 9783775723749 / 978-3-7757-2374-9
Publisher Hatje Cantz
Publish date Sep 2009
Publish year 2009
Book format Hardcover
Book format details clothbound
Language English
Pages 412 pages
Number of photographs 259 illustrations
Dimensions 29,5 x 28,7 cm / 11.25 x 11.25 inches

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