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Gourdinne, Ernest
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
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Status
- Professional
Details
Life dates
Liège, 1889 - ?, 1932
Activity
1905 - 1914 > Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 29<14>
Ernest Victor Louis Irma, ° 7.10.1889; + 8.3.1932. Photographer and film-maker. Son of Louis Gourdinne and Juliette Amélie Jeanne (see those names). Gourdinne was a precocious photographer and prizewinner in a photography competition held at the Liège International Exhibition in 1905. His mother ran her business at this address, so it is reasonable to assume that he was operating in some form of partnership with her. Gourdinne was an equally precocious cinematographer, commissioned by a pair of big-game hunters in 1909 to accompany them on an African safari. "Mr Gourdinne has gone along simply to make films amongst the wild animals. It seems he has had great success and we will soon be viewing amazing scenes of lion hunting projected onto a screen" (L'Avenir du Luxembourg, 17.5.1909). Photo-reportages and documentary films taken in the Congo during the period 1917 to 1919. Still active at this address in the 1920s and member of the ABP in 1922. His family firm ceased trading at the end of 1928.
Ernest Victor Louis Irma, ° 7.10.1889; + 8.3.1932. Photographer and film-maker. Son of Louis Gourdinne and Juliette Amélie Jeanne (see those names). Gourdinne was a precocious photographer and prizewinner in a photography competition held at the Liège International Exhibition in 1905. His mother ran her business at this address, so it is reasonable to assume that he was operating in some form of partnership with her. Gourdinne was an equally precocious cinematographer, commissioned by a pair of big-game hunters in 1909 to accompany them on an African safari. "Mr Gourdinne has gone along simply to make films amongst the wild animals. It seems he has had great success and we will soon be viewing amazing scenes of lion hunting projected onto a screen" (L'Avenir du Luxembourg, 17.5.1909). Photo-reportages and documentary films taken in the Congo during the period 1917 to 1919. Still active at this address in the 1920s and member of the ABP in 1922. His family firm ceased trading at the end of 1928.
Locations
1905 - 1914 > Liège, Boulevard d'Avroy, 29<14>
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Bibliography/Webography
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#0072
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 18.5.2017; MD / SFJ revised 4.6.2020; SFJ revised 9.12.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 23.11.2020 & 11.5.2023; SFJ revised 16.3.2024 based on information supplied by Pool Andries