Graphics From Everyday Life in The DPRK

North Korea uncensored and unfiltered – ordinary life in the world's most secretive nation, captured in never-before-seen ephemera.

Made in North Korea uncovers the fascinating and surprisingly beautiful graphic culture of North Korea - from packaging to hotel brochures, luggage tags to tickets for the world-famous mass games. From his base in Beijing, Bonner has been running tours into North Korea for over twenty years, and along the way collecting graphic ephemera. He has amassed thousands of items that, as a collection, provide an extraordinary and rare insight into North Korea's state-controlled graphic output, and the lives of ordinary North Koreans.

Format: Flexibound
Size: 270 x 205 mm (10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in)
Pages: 240 pp
Illustrations: 500 illustrations

Herausgeber: Phaidon

Sprache: Englisch

Printed in North Korea: The Art of Everyday Life in the DPRK

Never-before-seen North Korea - a rare glimpse into the country behind the politics and the creativity behind the propaganda

Inside North Korea

Offering a rare glimpse inside the Hermit Kingdom, Guardian journalist and photographer Oliver Wainwright takes us on an architectural journey behind closed doors in the world’s most secretive country. From the mosaic-lined lobbies of Soviet-era health centers to the candy-colored interiors of brand new theaters, his photographs shine a spotlight on the reclusive regime’s ambition to “turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland.”

Oliver Wainwright, Julius Wiedemann
Taschen
Hardcover with ribbon bookmarks, 21 x 27.5 cm, 240 pages

Sprache: Deutsch / Englisch / Französisch