“Join Claude Estebe in an in an intimate discussion looking at Ichida Sôta’s beautiful albums featuring Kansai. Ishida Sôta 市田左右太 (1843 – 1896), who founded the largest studio of Kobe in Meiji era is probably the least known of the great photographers of this period. Ichida Sota was born in Hyogo and moved to Kyoto in the early 1860s where he married the daughter of a sake brewer and set up a photo studio in 1867. In 1870 he transferred his studio in the new Kobe port where he Documented the Hanshin Railway construction for over 8 years.
Ichida set up again a studio in Kyoto for the first fair exhibition in Kyoto (1872). There, he took exquisite portraits of geiko and stunning landscapes. In an advertisement in the Hiogo News he stated that we could find on his Kyoto stand “”a full assortment of splendid photographic views of Kyoto, Osaka, Hiogo, Kobe Suma, Akashi”” in his “”well-know style of work “”.”
Claude Estebe – Photographer, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Born in 1959, Claude Estèbe is a
French photographer and researcher on Japanese visual culture. He is a former resident artist at
Villa 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.
thesis on nineteen century’s Japanese photography at INALCO
(French National University of Oriental Languages) and got a Louis Roederer’s research grant at the French National Library.
He published Les Derniers Samouraïs and Le Crépuscule des Geishas at Marval editions (2001, 2002). His last book, Yokohama shashin, has just being published in
2014 by Yellowkorner editions (French & English). He is now
teaching at INALCO and carries out expertise work for institutions like Guimet Asian Art Museum.
Claude Estèbe curated several exhibitions in Japan and Thailand, including First photographs in Siam, Bangkok Queen Gallery, 2008, and Christian Polak collection, Toraya – Kyotographie, 2013.
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Ichida Sota’s Kansai with Claude Estebe