Background
Nora Dumas was born Kelenföldi Telkes Nóra, in 1890, in Budapest, which she left for Paris, France in 1913.
Nora Dumas was born Kelenföldi Telkes Nóra, in 1890, in Budapest, which she left for Paris, France in 1913.
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.
Her photo of a draught horse straining at the yoke brought her attention and inclusion in an exhibition, with Ergy Landau and André Kertész, Das Lichtbild in Munich in 1931, and at other exhibitions in Paris and Brussels.
Nora Dumas died in 1979 at Thonon, near the Lake Geneva. 1931 - Pléiade Gallery, with Ilse Bing and Maurice Tabard
1931 - Plume d’Or Gallery
1931 - Munich, Das Lichtbild International Exhibition (together with Florence Henri, Germaine Krull, Ergy Landau, Kollar, André Kertész)
1933 - Studio Saint-Jaques Galerie, exhibition entitled Exposition pour la Constitution des Artistes Photographes
1933 - Hungarian House of Paris, Photographes hongrois
1933 - Brussels Deuxiéme Internationale de la Photographie et du Cinéma 1937 (with Kollar, Brassai, Kertész, Landau, Boucher, Zuber)
1937 - Galerie d’Art et Industrie, group exhibition
1938 - Galerie Paul Magné, Revue de la Photographie 1938
1939 - Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Art, exhibition Le Visages de la France
1955 - The Family of Manitoba, a MoMA international, touring, exhibition.
1957 - Budapest, Madome
1989 - Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone exhibition of her collected works.