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Arents, Pierre
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Professional / Connected
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1842 - Paris [F], 1916
Activity
1869 - 1894 Paris [F]
Pierre Marie, ° 29.7.1842; + 21.7.1916. Already operating in Paris when he married in Ghent in 1869. Attaché to the French scientific mission to Japan, head of the photographic section for which he prepared daguerreotype plates. Studies of the passage of Venus, sun spots and picturesque views, 1874. Founder member of the ABP and corresponding member as living abroad. Attaché to the "Observatoire de Paris", 1875-1880. In this capacity, Arents developed a highly sensitive collodium: "The photographer at the Meudon Observatory, Mr Arents, has produced an iodine-bromide collodium with an extreme sensitivity to violet. Curvature of the lenses together with the collodium's sensitivity enable a telescope to be made optimised in wave length" (Gustave De Vylder, "Revue photographique", Bulletin du Musée de l'Industrie, July 1879, p. 13).
Studio at 43, rue Tournefort, Paris, 1880-1894. Photoengraver from 1881 onwards. Illustrated BOUDET, M. "La photographie sans appareil, pour la reproduction de dessins, gravures, photographies et objets, plans quelconques." Paris, Octave Doin, 1886, with photogravures from his own negatives.
Pierre Marie, ° 29.7.1842; + 21.7.1916. Already operating in Paris when he married in Ghent in 1869. Attaché to the French scientific mission to Japan, head of the photographic section for which he prepared daguerreotype plates. Studies of the passage of Venus, sun spots and picturesque views, 1874. Founder member of the ABP and corresponding member as living abroad. Attaché to the "Observatoire de Paris", 1875-1880. In this capacity, Arents developed a highly sensitive collodium: "The photographer at the Meudon Observatory, Mr Arents, has produced an iodine-bromide collodium with an extreme sensitivity to violet. Curvature of the lenses together with the collodium's sensitivity enable a telescope to be made optimised in wave length" (Gustave De Vylder, "Revue photographique", Bulletin du Musée de l'Industrie, July 1879, p. 13).
Studio at 43, rue Tournefort, Paris, 1880-1894. Photoengraver from 1881 onwards. Illustrated BOUDET, M. "La photographie sans appareil, pour la reproduction de dessins, gravures, photographies et objets, plans quelconques." Paris, Octave Doin, 1886, with photogravures from his own negatives.
Locations
1869 - 1894 Paris [F]
Exhibitions
Paris, 1876; Ghent, 1880; Lille, 1882 (heliography; vermeil medal); Brussels, 1883 (heliographic engravings; bronze medal).
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1885
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#102
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 31.1.2017; MCC revised 20.5.2018 & 6.3.2020; SFJ revised 5.4.2020, 24.1.2022 & 17.3.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 2.5.2020