Femme nue 1920
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
9.5 x 11.5”
P hotographer Albert Rudomine was born in Kiev in 1892 to a Polish mother and Russian father. Near the time of his birth, his family moved to Paris and then went on to settle in New York in 1901. After studying Hebrew theology in New York he returned to Paris in 1915, joining the Foreign Legion. Two years later he was discharged, having been wounded and started to work as a dressmaker for the fashion company Patou. Soon afterwards, Rudomine began taking photographs of dancers, actors, models and artists and started working as a photojournalist. He worked for the "Illustration" newspaper and eventually opened his own photography studio in 1923 that was located on the Boulevard de la Tour Maubourg. There he specialised in portraits and great classical nudes.
During the Fifties, around the time of World War II, Rudomine began working for the French National Museums. It was the Rodin Museum where Rudomine photographed the sculptor’s work and in 1950 published a book on the celebrated artist called Rodin Inconnu. Albert Rudomine died in Paris, France at the age of eighty two in 1975.
