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Crossing Perspectives
Musée du quai Branly Photographic Collection
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Crossing Perspectives: Musée du quai Branly Photographic Collection is a presentation by Christine Barthe, Curator, Head of the photographic collection at the Musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, France.
The photographic collection of Musée du quai Branly is a reference collection regarding the representation of the whole world. Constituted from the legacy of two major historical collections, it got a new identity through its new place in 2006. A various range of actions including acquisitions, exhibitions, and support to the contemporary creation allows us to work on the 19th century as well as the 21st and to create connections between many worlds, from different perspectives.
There will be a discussion with Christine Barthe and Prachi Gupta after the presentation, followed by a Q&A.
Image credit (website & poster): Anonyme, Danseurs masqués, 1870-1889 © Collection Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Presented by Institut Français en Inde (French Institute in India), the Ambassade de France en Inde (French Embassy in India), and the Museum of Art and Photography, Bengaluru
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Speakers
Christine Barthe
Christine Barthe is Curator, Head of the photographic collection at the Musee du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, France. She leads an important acquisition policy of old and contemporary worldwide photography.
She curated many exhibitions: Dinh Q. Lê, le fil de la mémoire et autres photographies, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2022), A toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses, musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac (2020) Photographs, An Early Album of the World at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum (2019). At the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac : Nocturnes de Colombie, images contemporaines (2013), Patagonie, Images du bout du monde (2012), Camera Obscura (2007), Le Yucatán est ailleurs, Expéditions photographiques (1857-1886) de Désiré Charnay (2007). She co-curated with Xavier Barral the exhibition Martin Gusinde, L’esprit des hommes de Terre de Feu in Arles (2015), Kyoto, Ushuaia, Argentina (2015) and Santiago, Chile (2016).
She published A toi appartient le regard et (…) la liaison infinie entre les choses, Actes Sud, 2020, Photographs, An Early Album of the World, KAPH, 2019, L’esprit des hommes de la Terre de Feu, El Espiritu de los Hombres de Tierra del Fuego, ed Xavier Barral, 2015, and wrote an essay in Contemporary Art Colombia, TransGlobe Publishing, 2017.
Prachi Gupta
Prachi Gupta is an Archivist at the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP), Bangalore. She handles the photography collection that ranges from the 1850s to the current time with a number of one lakh plus objects. The position entails tasks related to archiving, cataloguing, research, and exhibitions. Previous to the current job, she spent close to a year working on the archive of the Hamilton Studios, Bombay, followed by freelance work in the field of graphic design, fashion illustrations and photography. She completed her Masters in Photography Design from the National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar in 2018 and has been living and working in Bangalore since. Her artistic interest lies in history, archives and performance, which she continues to explore through her work.
