The Korea Society presents the print catalog for Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity, a 2009 exhibition of historical photographs taken by early Christian missionaries to Korea.

Featuring more than 70 black and white photographs taken between 1887 and 1938, Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity, captures a transformative era, when contact with Western missionaries was creating new religious identities and stoking cultural clashes that would come to shape modern Korea. Indeed, it provides a glimpse of dramatic social changes in progress that absorb the reader in their abundance of character and detail. Each photograph is accompanied by an extensive caption on the facing page that puts the scene in historical and cultural context.

More than deeply engaging collection of rare photographs, Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity is also a solid reference book on the subject of early missionary activities in Korea, and includes essays by leading scholars and experts on Christianity in Korea such as Donald N. Clark, Hyaeweol Choi, Chang Uk Byun, Don Baker and Louanne Norris Smith.

Missionary Photography in Korea: Encountering the West through Christianity was edited by Donald N. Clark, professor of history and the director of International Studies Program at Trinity University. Clark is the author of Culture and Customs of Korea and Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience, 1900-1950. The son of missionaries, he was a Peace Corps volunteer, a Social Science Research Council fellow, and a Fulbright scholar. His research focuses on Korea, where he has spent much of his life.

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