{"id":4773,"date":"2016-04-04T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kyotographie.jp\/en\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4773&lang=en"},"modified":"2016-04-04T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:45:07","slug":"guimet-presents-tea-and-life-in-meiji-period","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/2015.kyotographie.jp\/en\/event\/guimet-presents-tea-and-life-in-meiji-period","title":{"rendered":"Guimet presents: Tea and Life in Meiji Period"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join Guimet’s head of Photographic Collections Jerome Ghesquiere, and curator Claude Estebe to discuss the difficulties for Meiji photographers for a visual representation of the ubiquitous tea culture as seen in the Guimet collection. Depending of the nationality and interests of photographers their works balance between casual, formal, or exotic representations, using a wide range of supports and style.<\/div><\/div>\n

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J\u00e9r\u00f4me Ghesqui\u00e8re \u2013 director of the Guimet Photo Collection<\/p>\n

J\u00e9r\u00f4me Ghesqui\u00e8re studied painting and photography at the National Fine Arts School of Bourges and photography at the University of Paris VIII in France. He also studied science and information technology in the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris (CNAM, France). Since 1989 he has been in charge of the photographic collections in the Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts in Paris where he organised several publications and participated in producing exhibitions.<\/div><\/div>\n

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Claude Estebe \u2013 Photographer, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales<\/p>\n

Born in 1959, Claude Est\u00e8be is a
\nFrench photographer and researcher on Japanese visual culture. He is a former resident artist at
\nVilla Kujoyama in Kyoto. His photographic artwork is now focusing on aesthetic archetypes and copyright issues through globalized plastic toys production (Tukata, Choking Hazard, Radium Girls & Pachimon series). In 2013, he was in residence at Toot Yung Art Center (Bangkok). He wrote his Ph.D.
\nthesis on nineteen century’s Japanese photography at INALCO
\n(French National University of Oriental Languages) and got a Louis Roederer’s research grant at the French National Library.
\nHe published Les Derniers Samoura\u00efs and Le Cr\u00e9puscule des Geishas at Marval editions (2001, 2002). His last book, Yokohama shashin, has just being published in
\n2014 by Yellowkorner editions (French & English). He is now
\nteaching at INALCO and carries out expertise work for institutions like Guimet Asian Art Museum.
\nClaude Est\u00e8be curated several exhibitions in Japan and Thailand, including First photographs in Siam, Bangkok Queen Gallery, 2008, and Christian Polak collection, Toraya \u2013 Kyotographie, 2013.<\/div><\/div>\n

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