MeMoMu_ELCWOMF_003 IMMORTALISED IN SONG / ENDEL LEPP FASHION _ LOUIS JOSEPH GHEMAR / KUMARI ANTON VAIM
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This self-portrait of French born photographer (we can also add painter, lithographer, draughtsman and printmaker to his especially-talented background and abundant resume....) Louis Joseph Ghemar is WILD.
Ghemar was born in 1819 (some say 1820, but most a firm on 1819) and from the late 1830s his profession was as a lithographer; fast forward to 1849 and he'd moved to Edinburgh, again working as a lithographer in a business partnership. By the late 1850s Ghemar found photographer to be his next calling; he returned to Belgium and opened a studio in Brussels (I believe at Rue de l'Ecuyer, 27) and then in Tournai sometime in the 1860s.
This eighteen sixties CDV is described as a selfie portrait of Ghemar as he sat at a piano in the midst of belting out a song. The recent publication 'Early Gaze-Unseen Photography from the 19th century by Tamara Berghmans & Ingrid Leonard celebrate some rare or unseen images of Belgian origin courtesy of the FOMU-Photo Museum of Antwerp, and this image of Ghemar is included. I understand the museum is currently exhibiting many of the images in the book, until March this year.
Louis Joseph Ghemar-immortalised in song here in this killer shot, and in his body of art and photographic portraits. Image courtesy of FOMU Antwerp. Kuva vähem
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