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Photo-Club liégeois
Identity
Category
Collective
Alternative name or descriptor
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Status
- Group
Details
Life dates
Activity
1909 * - 1914 Liège, Place Saint-Jean, 22 (Institut de garçons communal)
Founded on 10.10.1909 at a meeting attended by over 70 persons. Founding committee: president: Maxime Kirsch; vice-president: Georges Du Soleil; secretary: Joseph Wyn; deputy secretary: Charles de Neef(f); treasurer: Léon Lenoir; librarian and head of laboratory: Joseph Closson; commissioners: Alfred Gignez, Fernand Thiernesse, Auguste Warrem. The club was established "with the purpose of mutual instruction, popularisation and recreation, to enable its members to enlarge their theoretical and practical knowledge, and to develop in the art of photography." The club's premises were made available by the communal administration of Liège and weekly meetings were held on Wednesdays. "Members enjoy a 10% discount at several dealers on all their photographic supplies" (La Meuse, 24.3.1910). The premises included a fully equipped laboratory.
Secretary (1913-1914): Alphonse Lens. Reported having 150 members in March 1910 and nearly 200 members in March 1914. Published a monthly magazine "Le Photographe Mosan" that appeared from June 1910 to August 1914. Public lantern-slide presentations held in the academic hall of the University of Liège on 9.12.1913 and 9.3.1914 each attracted work by around 20 members of the club. Unlike similar locally based clubs in Belgium, the "Photo-Club liégeois" seems not to have organised regular public exhibitions of its members' work.
Founded on 10.10.1909 at a meeting attended by over 70 persons. Founding committee: president: Maxime Kirsch; vice-president: Georges Du Soleil; secretary: Joseph Wyn; deputy secretary: Charles de Neef(f); treasurer: Léon Lenoir; librarian and head of laboratory: Joseph Closson; commissioners: Alfred Gignez, Fernand Thiernesse, Auguste Warrem. The club was established "with the purpose of mutual instruction, popularisation and recreation, to enable its members to enlarge their theoretical and practical knowledge, and to develop in the art of photography." The club's premises were made available by the communal administration of Liège and weekly meetings were held on Wednesdays. "Members enjoy a 10% discount at several dealers on all their photographic supplies" (La Meuse, 24.3.1910). The premises included a fully equipped laboratory.
Secretary (1913-1914): Alphonse Lens. Reported having 150 members in March 1910 and nearly 200 members in March 1914. Published a monthly magazine "Le Photographe Mosan" that appeared from June 1910 to August 1914. Public lantern-slide presentations held in the academic hall of the University of Liège on 9.12.1913 and 9.3.1914 each attracted work by around 20 members of the club. Unlike similar locally based clubs in Belgium, the "Photo-Club liégeois" seems not to have organised regular public exhibitions of its members' work.
Locations
1909 * - 1914 Liège, Place Saint-Jean, 22 (Institut de garçons communal)
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1088
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Dates of creation/revision
SFJ new 4.1.2019; SFJ revised 10.6.2020, 6.7.2020, 19.7.2020 & 5.5.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 20.10.2020; SFJ revised 9.12.2020