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Ergy Landau
5 November – 18 December

The hungarian photographer Ergy Landau opens her first studio in Budapest where she makes a few portraits of Moholy-Nagy, whom she became friend with.
She settles in Paris in 1923 where she opens the « Studio Landau ». Mostly known for her portraits, realized in Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, as well as for her oustanding nudes, she photographed Bourdelle, Thomas Mann, Paul Valéry and Marcel Aymé prefaced her book « Children ».

Fist influenced by pictorialism, Stieglitz and Steichen, she is one of the co-founders of the Rapho Agency in 1933, and starts collaborating with the Daily Mirror in 1936 with a daily portraiture of the political events, based on the portraits of a little girl.

In 1954, Ergy Landau is 58 years old when she flies for China, along with Pierre Gascar.

She will there realize a portfolio illustrating Chinese everyday life at the time.
This album, called « China today », contains the pictures taken during her trip.
We are glad to present, for the 2015 edition of Photo-Saint-Germain, a selections of those photographies.