Come discover the Drouot Formation round tables from Monday, October 25 to Tuesday, October 26

Drouot Formation is organizing a round table - Photographers and Early Photographs of the Far East - in the form of 3 appraisal workshops led by Serge Plantureux, expert in early photographs and professor at Drouot Formation:

Registration required, subject to available places

These round tables will be broadcast live on the Internet.

Contact: Florence Guillon, 01 48 00 20 34 and drouotformation@drouot.com

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 15:00, Room 9, Hôtel Drouot, 9 rue Drouot, 75009 Paris

  • Welcome and presentation by Frédéric Ballon, director of studies at Drouot Formation
  • Olivier Le Duault, a rare album of the construction of the Suez Canal by engineer Anthony Poirson, prints by Justin Kozlowski, remarks on the canal and the history of photography in the Far East
  • Francesca Bonetti, Giacomo Caneva’s Journey to China
  • Bastien Manac’h, Voyageurs et soldats, Four Albums of German Sailors in the China Sea
  • Laurent Hou, Construction of a German City in China, in TsingTao, the personal album of Ulrich von Hassel, then a young consul, who entered history by taking part in the July 20, 1944 plot

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26 11.00 room 9

  • Serge Plantureux, analysis of two early albums of Java with prints by Woodbury and Page, the albums of Eduard Cassalette, 1863
  • Alexandre Pingel, Three Albums of Chinese and Dutch Industrialists, Views of Borneo and Java, 1880-1920
  • Questions from the public and students, conversation led by François Cam-Drouhin and Agathe Ouallet

TUESDAY, OCT0BER 26 15.00 room 9

  • Serge Kakou and Kim Timby, on Some Early Photographers in Japan
  • Charlotte Barthelemy, Two Japanese Albums
  • Olivier Degeorges, Japanese Tattoos in Old Albums
  • Estelle Hassenforder, Two Japanese Albums
  • Questions from the public and students

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