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Limb Eungsik
Limb Eungsik, Job Hunting, 1953, Gelatin silver print on paper, 50.5×40cm. MMCA collection

Limb Eungsik

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Limb Eungsik (1912∼2001, courtesy name Gujeong) was a native of Busan. He studied at the Busan Chesinriwonyangseongso (academy for communications officers) in 1931, and in 1934, he graduated from the Toshima Communications School in Japan. In 1935, he began working at the Gangreung Post Office, where he established the Gangreung Sauhoe, a photographers club. From 1946, he managed a photograph processing lab called ARS, which was located in Busan. There he established the Busan Gwanghwahoe, another photography group. During the Battle of Incheon in 1950, he served as a wartime photographer, and in June 1952, he held a joint exhibition with the Korea Fine Art Photography Institute in Busan, after which he established the Korea Photographers Association in December. In 1954, he taught the first photography class the College of Fine Arts at the Seoul National University and he continued to teach at Ewha Womans University and Hongik University, before spending four years, from 1974 to 1978, as a professor at the Chung-Ang University photography department. During the Japanese colonial era, Im primarily produced pictorialism photographs, but from the 1950s and onward, he rejected artistic salon photography and engaged in "Everydaylife realism [Saengwhaljuui]," which depicted reality in close up. His photography albums include Hanguk Gogeonchuk (Korean Heritage Architenture) (1977), and Pungmo (1982), which was an album of portraits of people in the field of culture and arts.
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art by Korea Arts Management Service

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