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Identity
Category
Collective
Status
- Connected
Details
Activity
1880 * - 1914 > Bruxelles, Rue de Louvain, 24<88> or 38<00-06>
Photography studio for copying plans and documents. Also documented public building works, sometimes in series of large-format albumen prints. According to an article on the "Archives générales du Royaume" site: "Initially, most of the pictures were intended to document accidents that occurred on construction sites or to enlighten the courts in the context of disputes related to expropriations, for example. It was only in the mid-1890s that the work of the studio began to take a less "technical" turn with the production of photographs intended to illustrate the activity of the Ministry of Public Works during major exhibitions or in publications. This turning point coincided with the creation of a veritable photo library in which the photographs considered most useful were archived." The online photo library contains images dating from 1896 onwards.
Photography studio for copying plans and documents. Also documented public building works, sometimes in series of large-format albumen prints. According to an article on the "Archives générales du Royaume" site: "Initially, most of the pictures were intended to document accidents that occurred on construction sites or to enlighten the courts in the context of disputes related to expropriations, for example. It was only in the mid-1890s that the work of the studio began to take a less "technical" turn with the production of photographs intended to illustrate the activity of the Ministry of Public Works during major exhibitions or in publications. This turning point coincided with the creation of a veritable photo library in which the photographs considered most useful were archived." The online photo library contains images dating from 1896 onwards.
Locations
1880 * - 1914 > Bruxelles, Rue de Louvain, 24<88> or 38<00-06>
Exhibitions
Antwerp, 1885 (bronze medal); Brussels, 1888 (photographic process for copying plans, by Mr Stadeler; bronze medal); Brussels, 1891; Antwerp, 1894 (gold medal); Brussels, 1897 (silver medal); Paris, 1900; Liège, 1905 (Diplôme de grand prix); Brussels, 1910 (Diplôme de grand prix); Ghent, 1913 (Diplôme de grand prix).
Bibliography/Webography
"Le Service photographique du Ministère des Travaux publics livre ses secrets... Près de 100 ans de photographie en Belgique" at: https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr&m=actualites&r=toutes-les-actualites&a=2023-05-31-le-service-photographique-du-ministere-des-travaux-publics-livre-ses-secrets...-pres-de-100-ans-de-photographie-en-belgique (accessed 27.6.2023)
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#25
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 28.2.2019 & 5.3.2019; SFJ revised 2.3.2021, 19.3.2021 & 23.9.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 7.4.2021; SFJ revised 27.6.2023 based on information supplied by MCC; MD revised 31.3.2025