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Collecting Photo Ephemera
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Manual of
Le Scénographe par Le Docteur Candèze (1874) |
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Collecting Photo Ephemera
Collecting is important, collecting ephemera is perhaps even
more important. The ephemera items are able to unveil the
secrets and stories behind our precious items.
On the right we see an original manual for the
Scénographe,
one of the first folding camera's and invented (1874)
by the Belgian
Ernest
Candèze.
(1827-1898) A real "appareil
photographique de poche"
Charles August Ernest Candèze was a medical doctor,
zoölogist, botanist and an entomologist.
He was also one of the foundermembers of the
Association Belge de Photographie.
In 1882 Candèze became the first Belgian who
experimented with photographs taken from a string
guided balloon.
The Scénographe is a camera designed for dry collodion
plates, 11cm. x 16 cm.
On the title page we read the advantages of this early
portable folding camera:
LE
SCENOGRAPHE: APPAREIL PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DE POCHE. Pour
prendre des vues format album, des vues
stereoscopique, des portraits, des reproductions d
'objects quelconques, chez soi, ou en promenade et en
voyage.
Par Le Docteur Candèze, 1874.
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Scénographe © Matthew R. Isenburg Collection
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The
Scénographe is a rare camera collectable,
especially for the Belgian collector.
On the left we see a rare Scénographe from the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection
in the USA
The Scénographe is a folding camera with a weight of
only 400 gram.
For this reason he was very popular for landscape
photography because easy to travel with in
comparison to many other more cumbersome dry plate
camera's |
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Back of Carte-de-Visite photographe by
François Willème
inventor of the Photosculpture in 1859-1860 |
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Collection Henri Koilski
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One of
the most intriguing curiosities in photography is
the three dimensional
photosculpture.
According to
Willème,
the photosculpture is a "mechanical sculpture" or
form of photographically derived sculpture with
only minimal need for handwork. (see
Sobiesziek)
According to Sobiesziek's article (and
Willème),
the process was simply an outgrowth of the idea
that the sum of profiles equals the whole
volumetric figure.
Read more about the
photosculpture |
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The
Ensign Handbook of Photography |
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The Ensign Handbook of Photography
(1913)
is not only precious due to it's cover, it
also serves as a general photo manual for the
amateur photographer.
Obviously, the largest part is the catalogue
with a huge choice of camera's, tripods,
lenses, enlargers, dark-room lamps, printing
frames, photo literature, photo albums, etc.
etc...
Thanks to the detailed steel engravings
inside, this and many other printed sources
serve as an aid to identify and date camera
and projection equipment.
Publications like this where promoting
photography by amateurs.
"The Simplicity of Photography, a foreword
showing how easy it is to make good pictures"
Hence this title, the forword illustrate the
popularity of photography in the beginning of
the 20th. Century. This
popularisation started at the end of the 19th.
Century when KODAK introduced the
No.1
Kodak
with the slogan:
You Press the Button, We
do the Rest.
The same is true for the cinematograph:
The Ensign Daylight Loading Cinematograph
Camera.
According to the catalogue description, "This
camera brings within the reach of everyone the
possibility of making
moving pictures" |
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Internationale Photographische
Ausstellung Dresden 1909 |
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Vignettes - Postcards - Bookplates -
Chromo's
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GOERZ
Trieder - Binocles Photo - Apparate |
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Collecting vignettes, postcards,
bookplates, chromo's, etc. is endless. On
the right an attractive Goerz advertisment
is seen announcing binoculars & camera's.
Left, a more rare vignette remembers an
early photo exhibition.
Internationale photographische Ausstellung
Dresden 1909.
This exhibition was organised "Untern
dem allerhöchsten Protektorat seiner
Majestät des Königs Friedrich August von
Sachsen"
One of the leading organisers of the
exhibition was
Emanuel Goldberg
(1881-1970)
Below left, a nicely designed
Ex-Libris
or bookplate is seen, library of G.
Servaes. |
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