A book like no other!

Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr of recent years. An uninterrupted series of photographs of the beloved North Korean leader looking at things, this series fascinates with its formal rigor and intensity.

Without depriving these photographs of their primary function - to elevate Kim Jong Il to iconic status - this series forces us to modify the objective of propaganda. The icon becomes a taxonomy, the viewer is observed, and the meaning of these images is elusive.

Accompanied by an essay by Marco Bohr entitled Looking at Kim Jong Il Looking at Things, the book reveals the roots of our fascination with these images accumulated on the Internet - these memes - by analyzing how a series of seemingly innocent photographs becomes viral and attractive. By publishing Kim Jong Il Looking at Things in the FOLLOW ME collection, Collecting Images Today, Jean Boîte Éditions continues to shed light on another art scene, one that sets up the online collector as creator, and the ephemeral as perennial.

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