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Association belge des amateurs photographes de Paris
Identity
Category
Collective
Alternative name or descriptor
- Société franco-belge de photographie [de Paris]
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Group
Details
Life dates
Activity
1892 * - 1903 Paris, Rue de Reuilly, 42
Inaugural meeting on 4.12.1892. Founding president: Jean Gondry; vice-president: Eugène Briché; secretary: Jérôme Willems; treasurer: Georges Gondry. Other founder members: Jean Huberty, Alphonse Vercauteren, François Simon, Léon Vacgner, Ernest Dierich, Jean Lejeune, Alexandre Gilles, Auguste Vanderverren, Vanneste, Detalle, Léon Jamme. Club's premises at this address included "a laboratory, a retouching room, an eight metre long posing studio, a library and reading room" (Le Soir, 18.12.1893).
28 members in December 1893, including Sellier Fils, Bové (camera maker), Spranch, A. Havé, Charles André, Léopold Kips, Victor Prieur, Marius Berthon and Louis Dulencourt as active members. Although aimed principally at the "Belgian colony" in Paris, it is possible that not all members were actually Belgian. Planned excursions included a visit to the Antwerp "Exposition universelle" in 1894. Jean Gondry was still president of this club in 1895, when it was described as the "Société franco-belge de photographie [de Paris]". The club may have been in abeyance for some of the time, given a paucity of documentation concerning its activities after 1899.
Inaugural meeting on 4.12.1892. Founding president: Jean Gondry; vice-president: Eugène Briché; secretary: Jérôme Willems; treasurer: Georges Gondry. Other founder members: Jean Huberty, Alphonse Vercauteren, François Simon, Léon Vacgner, Ernest Dierich, Jean Lejeune, Alexandre Gilles, Auguste Vanderverren, Vanneste, Detalle, Léon Jamme. Club's premises at this address included "a laboratory, a retouching room, an eight metre long posing studio, a library and reading room" (Le Soir, 18.12.1893).
28 members in December 1893, including Sellier Fils, Bové (camera maker), Spranch, A. Havé, Charles André, Léopold Kips, Victor Prieur, Marius Berthon and Louis Dulencourt as active members. Although aimed principally at the "Belgian colony" in Paris, it is possible that not all members were actually Belgian. Planned excursions included a visit to the Antwerp "Exposition universelle" in 1894. Jean Gondry was still president of this club in 1895, when it was described as the "Société franco-belge de photographie [de Paris]". The club may have been in abeyance for some of the time, given a paucity of documentation concerning its activities after 1899.
Locations
1892 * - 1903 Paris, Rue de Reuilly, 42
Exhibitions
Ixelles, 1895 ("Société franco-belge", Paris).
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1001
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 10.12.2018; revised 3.1.2019 & 9.3.2019; SFJ revised 26.6.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 12.2.2021 & 15.3.2024