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Some of them are, but all of the ones in this folder are very, very poorly photoshopped: https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/tree/main/Backgrounds/image

Some of them are, but all of the ones in this folder are very, very poorly photoshopped: https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/tree/main/Backgrounds/images/%EC%84%A0%EA%B5%B08%EA%B2%BD https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/tree/main/Backgr...

remarkEon 6y ago
Are they supposed to be "photos", or are these paintings or something? I honestly can't tell. Doesn't look that much different from stylized wallpapers I see all the time in the West, to be honest. Edit: Yeah ... I think these are photoshops, and they're done so poorly that I couldn't distinguish it immediately from a painting. Maybe the style is intentional, if I'm giving benefit of the doubt.
- monocasa 6y ago
  It's for sure, at least in part, different aesthetic languages in play here. North Korea seems to be really into a 'faded', almost pastel color balance even for new works and including photographs. You see it all over their consumer packaging too.
- fvdessen 6y ago
  Those are paintings made with photoshop. It's intentional. It's not any weirder than the people with big arms and tiny heads you would see on tech companies websites
Frost1x 6y ago
My personal favorite was: https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgrounds/images/선군8경/한드레벌의%20지평선.jpg https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgr... I'm not sure why you'd even forge this photo. I mean, I understand it's portraying industrial agricultural capability and typical propoganda North Korea pumps out, but across an empty field vs harvesting a bountiful crop? Like 95% of that photo is forged and it doesn't even make sense to me.
- fvdessen 6y ago
  It's not a forgery, it's a painting made for very different tastes than ours
  - dTal 6y ago
    It's shopped, and badly. The foreground tractor isn't even the same perspective as the rest of the scene. Why would a painter do that?
    - fvdessen 6y ago
      Because they're painting with photoshop ? If they made the same picture with watercolours, would it be a 'forgery' or a 'shop' as well ? There's never been any intent to make the viewer believe that what they're seeing is actually real. It's just a painting, it's not really well done, and it's done with photoshop instead of more traditional techniques. Some parts of the painting are taken from photographs but that is not unusual in asian paintings
      - dTal 6y ago
        Ah I see, you're using some strange definition of the word "painting" which somehow includes shoddy photoshop collages.
        enriquto 6y ago
        According to modern painting theory, photography is just one more technique that painters can use to put colors on the canvas. This is not a fringe use of the word "painting", but part of its definition since at least 50 years ago.
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remarkEon 6y ago

Are they supposed to be "photos", or are these paintings or something? I honestly can't tell. Doesn't look that much different from stylized wallpapers I see all the time in the West, to be honest. Edit: Yeah ... I think these are photoshops, and they're done so poorly that I couldn't distinguish it immediately from a painting. Maybe the style is intentional, if I'm giving benefit of the doubt.

monocasa 6y ago
It's for sure, at least in part, different aesthetic languages in play here. North Korea seems to be really into a 'faded', almost pastel color balance even for new works and including photographs. You see it all over their consumer packaging too.
fvdessen 6y ago
Those are paintings made with photoshop. It's intentional. It's not any weirder than the people with big arms and tiny heads you would see on tech companies websites

Frost1x 6y ago

My personal favorite was: https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgrounds/images/선군8경/한드레벌의%20지평선.jpg https://github.com/BlackOtton/RedStar-Media/blob/main/Backgr... I'm not sure why you'd even forge this photo. I mean, I understand it's portraying industrial agricultural capability and typical propoganda North Korea pumps out, but across an empty field vs harvesting a bountiful crop? Like 95% of that photo is forged and it doesn't even make sense to me.

fvdessen 6y ago
It's not a forgery, it's a painting made for very different tastes than ours
- dTal 6y ago
  It's shopped, and badly. The foreground tractor isn't even the same perspective as the rest of the scene. Why would a painter do that?
  - fvdessen 6y ago
    Because they're painting with photoshop ? If they made the same picture with watercolours, would it be a 'forgery' or a 'shop' as well ? There's never been any intent to make the viewer believe that what they're seeing is actually real. It's just a painting, it's not really well done, and it's done with photoshop instead of more traditional techniques. Some parts of the painting are taken from photographs but that is not unusual in asian paintings
    - dTal 6y ago
      Ah I see, you're using some strange definition of the word "painting" which somehow includes shoddy photoshop collages.
      - enriquto 6y ago
        According to modern painting theory, photography is just one more technique that painters can use to put colors on the canvas. This is not a fringe use of the word "painting", but part of its definition since at least 50 years ago.

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