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Kemna, Georges
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Antwerp, 1856 - Liège, 1914
Activity
1890 - 1914 + Liège
° 17.4.1856; + 28.11.1914. As a teacher at the "Athénée" (secondary school) in Liège from 1885, he considered photography as an aid to the sciences, which he taught. He amassed a personal collection of 6,000 slides. Published a series of 150 slides featuring the port of Antwerp, taken in 1890 and 1900. Author of the work "Les projections lumineuses dans l'enseignement", Antwerp, Buschmann, 1895. In 1899 he led two sessions at the ABP on stereoscopy. Illustrated talks on geographical and geological subjects. Collaboration with Gustave Marissiaux (see that name), commissioned to take a series of stereoviews on coal-mining for the Liège exhibition of 1905. Kemna offered his technical assistance, since firedamp prohibited the use of magnesium. Later, he produced many autochromes which he presented at ABP slide shows. Some of these autochromes were posthumously shown at the "Salon International d'Art Photographique" in Antwerp, 1920. As president of the Liège section of the ABP from May 1901 until 1904, Kemna organised outings.
° 17.4.1856; + 28.11.1914. As a teacher at the "Athénée" (secondary school) in Liège from 1885, he considered photography as an aid to the sciences, which he taught. He amassed a personal collection of 6,000 slides. Published a series of 150 slides featuring the port of Antwerp, taken in 1890 and 1900. Author of the work "Les projections lumineuses dans l'enseignement", Antwerp, Buschmann, 1895. In 1899 he led two sessions at the ABP on stereoscopy. Illustrated talks on geographical and geological subjects. Collaboration with Gustave Marissiaux (see that name), commissioned to take a series of stereoviews on coal-mining for the Liège exhibition of 1905. Kemna offered his technical assistance, since firedamp prohibited the use of magnesium. Later, he produced many autochromes which he presented at ABP slide shows. Some of these autochromes were posthumously shown at the "Salon International d'Art Photographique" in Antwerp, 1920. As president of the Liège section of the ABP from May 1901 until 1904, Kemna organised outings.
Locations
1890 - 1914 + Liège
Exhibitions
Ghent, 1903; Ghent ABP, 1903; Louvain, 1904.
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
[Morisseaux, Léon]. "Hommage rendu à la mémoire de Georges Kemna par le Président de la Section de Liége de l'Association belge de Photographie", Bulletin de l'ABP, vol. 41 (1914), pp. 348-357.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1897 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#2421
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 22.4.2017 & 13.2.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries; SFJ revised 15.4.2020 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 11.12.2020