Claire Tran took part on Tuesday, December 18th to a special day at the Lycée français international de Bangkok (LFIB), around the exhibition A photographic narrative of the Asians at war. With Din Buadaeng (doctoral student in history at the University of Paris Diderot), they provided guided tours of the exhibition with several classes of 14 years old and 17 years old students. Followed by an exchange with the oldest students on the profession of historian and the work of researcher.
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Alliance Française, 179 Thanon Witthayu
Lumphini, Pathum Wan - 10330 Bangkok
9-23 novembre 2018
Thanks to François Doré from the Librairie du Siam, the IRASEC and the Alliance Française are pleased to present 10 original portraits of Asian soldiers painted by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921). They are part of his collection of soldiers of the Great War drawn between 1917 and 1921 by the Swiss painter. After studying at the École des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and in Paris, the landscape painter became (...)

A Visual History of the Indians,
Siamese and Vietnamese at War
Chamchuri 10 Bldg., 7th Floor - Chulalongkorn University
November 9th - 23rd 2018
The First World War was the first conflict to be photographed and the first in which pictures were actively exploited and controlled in support of the war effort. From WW1, photography became a powerful and established medium of mass communication. Most of these pictures are coming from the French archives and the private archives of the Prince (...)