Koo Bohnchang Photo Exhibition, Invitation, 1983, MMCA Art Research Center Collection
Pine Hill Gallery
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art by Korea Arts Management Service
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Timespace
Timespace was a photography complex that was opened in June 1984 in Seongsan-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul by Im Hyang-ja, a photographer who studied in Japan, and her husband and photography theorist Kim Seung-gon. In the early 1990s it moved to Chungmu-ro in Jung-gu, Seoul and ran a photography agency and gallery. In commemoration of its opening, Timespace held the special exhibition Ansel Adams that featured original prints by the American modernist photographer Ansel Adams for the first time in South Korea. Moreover, it endeavored to facilitate exchanges of photography cultures between Korea and Japan by holding exhibitions introducing major artists in Japanese photography history, including Fujii Hideki (1934–2010), Kuwabara Shisei (1936–), and Maeda Shinzō (1922–1998). Timespace is considered to have contributed to the development and expansion of Korean photography in multifaceted ways by exhibiting works by domestic and international photographers, offering an opportunity for young photographers to present their works and portfolios, hosting photography research gatherings, and publishing its own newsletters in the 1980s when spaces specializing in photography began to emerge in South Korea.
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Hanmadang Gallery
Hanmadang Gallery, specializing in photography, was opened by Jang Yanghwan, a photographer from the Sookmihoe photography club of Sookmyung Women’s University, in October 1983 in Junghak-dong, Jongro-gu, Seoul. It held special and permanent exhibitions on photography and rented its space for artworks without distinction of genre. Before the 1980s, photography exhibitions were held only at limited spaces like the Cultural Center of Publishers Association, the Center of the Federation of Artistic and Cultural Organization of Korea, and the Press Center of Korea. Since national and public art museums rarely hosted photography exhibitions even in the 1980s, there was an absolute lack of space for artists in the art photography field to showcase their works. One of the first galleries specializing in photography that emerged in the 1980s, Hanmadang Gallery contributed to the development of Korean photography by introducing contemporaneous art photographs and hosting special exhibitions. Ten Renowned Korean Photographers was held in 1983 in commemoration of the opening of the gallery. In 1985, the gallery organized Female Photographers that featured works by female photographers whose number was gradually growing. It also introduced early works by notable photographers by holding their solo exhibitions such as Twelve Sighs for Koo Bohnchang in 1985 and Image of the City for Lee Gapchul in 1986.
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