Monsieur Philemon Toleafoa

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Title

Monsieur Philemon Toleafoa

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Philemon Toleafoa is here depicted after a training session at the Montpellier rugby club in France where he had played for the previous six years. The photograph comes from Amituanai's 'Déjeuner' series, after the French word for lunch. Toleafoa remarked that the big thing he missed in France was Sunday togai (lunch) at his grandmother's home. But within an art historical context this title also recalls the famous painting by French artist Édouard Manet titled Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon ...

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Format

Image

Date created

2007

Creator

Edith Amituanai

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/907917

Related subjects

Stadiums / Football players / Montpellier (France) / Sāmoan / dye / photographic gelatin / resin-coated paper / aluminium / colour prints / colour photographs / chromogenic colour prints / works of art / colour photography / chromogenic processes / Contemporary / Rugby / Sports / Montpellier

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