Photographer Ergy Landau ((1896-1967, HU/FR) completed an apprenticeship with Olga Máté in Budapest, studied in Vienna with Franz Xaver Setzer, and later in Berlin with Rudolf Dührkoop. In 1923, she emigrated to Paris where established herself as a portrait photographer. In 1924, Landau opened her Parisian studio and became known through her portraits of the contemporary intelligentsia. She worked with a Rolleiflex camera, whose framing demands close-up shots. While her early period was influenced by Pictorialism, at the end of the 1920s she turned towards the Nouvelle Vision (New Vision) with its attraction to forms, objects and materials, light and daring shot angles. Landau met Charles Rado in 1933 and together with Ylla, Brassaï, and Nora Dumas they founded the photo press agency Rapho, which was closed during World War II but reopened afterwards.