DIRECTORY_1997#265 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 9:28:07 AM CET human revised February 8, 2023 12:35:44 PM CET human Partnership person Bisson Frères conventionDeclaration Professional conventionDeclaration 1857 - 1858 [Belgium, views of] London, 1861 ARC (views of Antwerp, Bruges and Oudenaarde).

<b>1857 - 1858 [Belgium, views of]</b> Louis Auguste (° Paris, 21.4.1814; + Paris, 11.5.1876) and his younger brother Auguste Rosalie (° Paris, 1.5.1826; + Paris, 22.5.1900). Photographers operating in Paris from the early 1840s. Their running series of architectural studies was entitled "Reproductions photographiques des plus beaux types d'architecture et de sculpture d'après les plus remarquables de l'antiquité, du moyen âge et de la renaissance". Prints were generally 48 x 40 cm on mounts measuring 72 x 55 cm. The series, finally comprising a total of some 250 prints, including over twenty views taken in Belgium, as follows: Antwerp (3), Audenarde (2), Bruges (4), Brussels (4), Ghent (5), Louvain (2) and Ypres (1). The Belgian negatives were taken by the Bissons' operator, Jean-Claude Marmand, accompanied by Gilbert Radoux, who possessed local knowledge of promising subjects and potential viewpoints.