Printed: 2024-04-19
Barbaix, Edgar
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur then Professional
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1893 - Ghent, 1973
Activity
1913 - 1914 > Gand
Edgar Joannes Karel, ° 22.8.1893; + 18.3.1973. Initially a butcher. Reportedly a member of "Ecole de Photographie" from 1913. Treasurer of said club from 1921 to 1926. Turned professional in the immediate post World War I period and active as a professional photographer in Ghent until 1948; at Sint-Michielsplein, 8 and Burgstraat, 85 in September 1944. Best known for his series of portraits of Flemish writers, the negatives of which are in the collection of the Letterhuis in Antwerp.
Edgar Joannes Karel, ° 22.8.1893; + 18.3.1973. Initially a butcher. Reportedly a member of "Ecole de Photographie" from 1913. Treasurer of said club from 1921 to 1926. Turned professional in the immediate post World War I period and active as a professional photographer in Ghent until 1948; at Sint-Michielsplein, 8 and Burgstraat, 85 in September 1944. Best known for his series of portraits of Flemish writers, the negatives of which are in the collection of the Letterhuis in Antwerp.
Locations
1913 - 1914 > Gand
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Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Vanderstraeten, Frederik. "Uit een erfenis groeide een fotokring... Koninklijke Fotokring 'Lux Nova' vzw een eeuw oud", De Oost-Oudburg, Jaarboek 48, 2011, pp. 5-114.
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#2472
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Dates of creation/revision
MD new 7.11.2022; MD revised 14.2.2024 based on information supplied by Graham Ward (email dated 3.2.2024); SFJ revised 16.3.2024 based on information supplied by Pool Andries