The Big Lie. A journey to North Korea, the country where everything is true but false.
Pyramid| N° d'inventaire | 23096 |
| Format | 17.5 x 25 |
| Détails | 175 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782350174921 |
The Big Lie is a projection into the absurd, a stroll between reality and unreality. Didier Bizet brought back from his stay in North Korea images of everything the official route was willing to reveal to him, as well as the feeling of having witnessed a vast charade. In the most secretive country on the planet, propaganda is a veritable state religion. Getting close to any North Korean truth is therefore a fantasy. Faced with this sense of absurdity, the photographer chose to manipulate images, and offers a new kind of "seek and find." This book is at once a photographic fable, a meaningful nonsense, and a satire of "true-false" questioning the truth with irony. A liar, a liar and a half...
The Big Lie is a projection into the absurd, a stroll between reality and unreality. Didier Bizet brought back from his stay in North Korea images of everything the official route was willing to reveal to him, as well as the feeling of having witnessed a vast charade. In the most secretive country on the planet, propaganda is a veritable state religion. Getting close to any North Korean truth is therefore a fantasy. Faced with this sense of absurdity, the photographer chose to manipulate images, and offers a new kind of "seek and find." This book is at once a photographic fable, a meaningful nonsense, and a satire of "true-false" questioning the truth with irony. A liar, a liar and a half...