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Sury, Joseph
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Connected / Amateur
Details
Life dates
Chimay, 1866 - Antwerp, 1944
Activity
1903 - 1914 > Anvers - Wyneghem, Chaussée de Turnhout, 283
Jules Charles Marie Joseph, ° 17.4.1866; + 23.11.1944. Studies at the Academy of Brussels. Chemist at Distillery Meeus in Wijnegem. Pictorialist. Member of the "Club d'amateurs photographes de Belgique". Became a pioneer of colour photography: he registered a patent, jointly with Edmond Bastyns (see that name), on 17.7.1908 for "obtaining, on paper, photographic prints in colour". The process consisted of combining iron salts for blue tones with the gum bichromate process for yellows and reds. He founded a firm on 31.10.1908, "La Photographie des Couleurs S.A.", to commercialise trichromatic photography. In 1913, Sury invented "Color" paper (powder process) that came into use after the First World War. Member of the "Photo-Club d'Anvers" and still a member of the ABP in 1922. Remained active into the 1930s. Killed, together with the rest of his family, when a V-2 rocket destroyed his house and laboratory.
Jules Charles Marie Joseph, ° 17.4.1866; + 23.11.1944. Studies at the Academy of Brussels. Chemist at Distillery Meeus in Wijnegem. Pictorialist. Member of the "Club d'amateurs photographes de Belgique". Became a pioneer of colour photography: he registered a patent, jointly with Edmond Bastyns (see that name), on 17.7.1908 for "obtaining, on paper, photographic prints in colour". The process consisted of combining iron salts for blue tones with the gum bichromate process for yellows and reds. He founded a firm on 31.10.1908, "La Photographie des Couleurs S.A.", to commercialise trichromatic photography. In 1913, Sury invented "Color" paper (powder process) that came into use after the First World War. Member of the "Photo-Club d'Anvers" and still a member of the ABP in 1922. Remained active into the 1930s. Killed, together with the rest of his family, when a V-2 rocket destroyed his house and laboratory.
Locations
1903 - 1914 > Anvers - Wyneghem, Chaussée de Turnhout, 283
Exhibitions
Antwerp, 1905 ABP; Brussels, 1907 (gum prints); Brussels, 1908; Brussels, 1908 ABP; Brussels, 1909 (thirty frames of colour prints by Sury's own process, including views of Venice and Lake Maggiore); Brussels, 1911 (colour portraits by Sury's own process); Liège, 1911 RET; Ghent, 1913 (powder print).
Genres / subject matter
Techniques
Bibliography/Webography
BERGER, Philippe. Le Procédé Color. Procédé aux Poudres du Docteur Joseph Sury. Belgique: Édition Philippe Berger, 2000.
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1903 - 1914
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#4041
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 5.8.2017, 16.2.2018, 29.9.2018 & 14.10.2018, partly based on information supplied by Pool Andries: SFJ revised 17.4.2019 & 4.6.2019; SFJ revised 3.5.2020, 27.6.2020, 24.8.2020 & 29.9.2021 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 4.11.2022 & 9.5.2023; SFJ revised 17.6.2023 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; SFJ revised 30.3.2025