Ergy Landau

Ergy Landau

A Photographer's Life 1896-1967 Category : Photography Photographs : Ergy Landau Texts : Laurence Le Guen, David Martens, Kathleen Grosset 130 documents and photographs Size : 20 x 25 cm/ Hardback 128 pages / Colour + black & white Le Bec en l'air ISBN : 9782367441634 / 36 € Release date : Oct 06, 22 Rights available

Born in 1896, Ergy Landau was a Hungarian-Jewish immigrant in Paris in the 1920s. She opened her own studio and found her place in the male-dominated environment, working in advertising and for the press. Unlike her compatriots (Moholy-Nagy, Kertész, Brassaï, etc.), her name remains little known in the history of photography. This book, both biographical and thematic, retraces the unique life path of one of the first women photographers of the 20th century, whose death without an heir in 1967 erased her from the landscape.