An artist's book expanding on Tiane Doan na Champassak's iconographic research on the former king of Thailand (and amateur photographer).
The King is dead, long live The King! restages Tiane Doan na Champassak's first self-published artist's book, The King of Photography. Back in 2011, the volume was gathering a collection of images found on the internet which represented King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand with a photographic camera. The King was a keen photographer and was rarely seen without this device. After the King's death in 2016, Doan na Champassak decided to complete his iconographic research with a new arsenal of images depicting the former King and his beloved camera in a "sequel" limited to 250 copies: The King is dead, long live The King!
Tiane Doan na Champassak (born 1973) is a French visual artist of Asian origin. He has developed a complex body of work infusing his own
photographic production with techniques of
appropriation, variation, reuse and repetition. Champassak subjects materials from the internet, personal memorabilia, vernacular photography and magazine cuttings to a large variety of processes linked to the conceptual arsenal of postmodernism, challenging themes such as sexuality, gender identity and censorship.
