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Candèze, Ernest
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Amateur / Connected
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1827 - Glain, 1898
Activity
1870 ca - 1898 + Liège - Glain
° 27.2.1827; + 30.6.1898. Doctor of medicine in 1852. Doctor-alienist (director of the Glain asylum), zoologist, botanist, and entomologist. Member of the "Académie Royale de Belgique" in 1858; director of the science section in 1874. Author of novels popularising the sciences.
Patent of 31.1.1874 for a camera known as the "scénographe" [foldable camera for 11 x 16 plates, with a meniscus lens and disc diaphragm]. Constructed in Paris by Émile Deyrolle & Fils, the scenograph was in use throughout Europe. Patent of 29.4.1882 for "a camera for taking instantaneous views". In 1882, experiments for the Ministry of War with photographs taken from a barrage balloon equipped with a pneumatic shutter of his own design. Author of "La Photographie en chemin de fer et en ballon", Bulletin de l’ABP, 1882, and "La photographie en voyage", Bulletin du Club Alpin belge, 1884. A complete bibliography was published by Professor Lameere in "Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique" vol. 42, 1898.
Founder member of the ABP. President of the Liège section, 1874-1879 and 1882-83; vice-president 1881-82 and 1883-84. Vice-president of the ABP from 1874 until 1880, president from 1886 until 1889.
° 27.2.1827; + 30.6.1898. Doctor of medicine in 1852. Doctor-alienist (director of the Glain asylum), zoologist, botanist, and entomologist. Member of the "Académie Royale de Belgique" in 1858; director of the science section in 1874. Author of novels popularising the sciences.
Patent of 31.1.1874 for a camera known as the "scénographe" [foldable camera for 11 x 16 plates, with a meniscus lens and disc diaphragm]. Constructed in Paris by Émile Deyrolle & Fils, the scenograph was in use throughout Europe. Patent of 29.4.1882 for "a camera for taking instantaneous views". In 1882, experiments for the Ministry of War with photographs taken from a barrage balloon equipped with a pneumatic shutter of his own design. Author of "La Photographie en chemin de fer et en ballon", Bulletin de l’ABP, 1882, and "La photographie en voyage", Bulletin du Club Alpin belge, 1884. A complete bibliography was published by Professor Lameere in "Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique" vol. 42, 1898.
Founder member of the ABP. President of the Liège section, 1874-1879 and 1882-83; vice-president 1881-82 and 1883-84. Vice-president of the ABP from 1874 until 1880, president from 1886 until 1889.
Locations
1870 ca - 1898 + Liège - Glain
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1875.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
Wikipédia - Ernest Candèze: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Candeze
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1898
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#574
Identity of institution
FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen
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Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 7.7.2017; MCC revised 25.1.2019.