Name Nora Dumas | ||
Ergy Landau és Nora Dumas fotográfiái a Biksady Galériában
Nora Dumas (b. Budapest, 1890, d. Thonon, 1979), was Hungarian photographer who worked mainly in Paris.
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Nora Dumas was born Kelenfoldi Telkes Nora, in 1890, in Budapest, which she left for Paris, France in 1913. Spending the years 1914–1917 in an internment camp, she then went to the United States, where she met the Swiss architect, Adrien-Emile Dumas, whom she married.
Returning to France, the couple settled in Moisson. Nora’s photographs produced there and amongst other villages of the Seine depict rural life as endangered, as a result of the wartime decimation of the male population and poverty. Ergy Landau took her on as an assistant in her studio in Paris in 1929, where they worked together for nearly ten years, sharing the celebrated Ukrainian model, Assia Granatouroff for studio photographs of the nude. Both also produced portraits of adults and children and fashion photographs. Her photo of a draught horse straining at the yoke brought her attention and inclusion in an exhibition, with Ergy Landau and Andre Kertesz, Das Lichtbild in Munich in 1931, and at other exhibitions in Paris and Brussels.
She joined the agency Rapho which was set up by Charles Rado to represent fellow Hungarian friends and refugee photographers including Brassai, Ergy Landau and Ylla, and her work was taken up by a number of magazines including Vu, Bifur, Photographie, Paris magazine (a celebrity gossip magazine) and Follies (a popular French pin-up magazine).
Nora Dumas died in 1979 at Thonon, near the Lake Geneva.
Her works are archived by the Rapho Agency.