1904-1966

Émeric Feher was born in Beçej, which was then part of Austria-Hungary and is now in Serbia. He moved to Paris in 1926 and became a French citizen in 1939. He worked in the car industry for Peugeot and Citroën before discovering his passion for photography while working as an electrician and lighting engineer at the Debery and Peignot studio. In 1933, he worked for René Zuber's studio and went on his own in 1936, joining the Alliance Photo agency. By 1937, he was included in the MoMA exhibition Photography 1839-1937. He worked commercially, covering a broad range of subjects. During the war, he took refuge in the South of France and afterwards returned to Paris to resume his work. He died in 1966 from cardiac arrest.

Fraçoise Paviot curated the exhibition Emeric Feher - À la vie, à l’image in association with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux at Logis royal du château du roi René à Angers from October 16, 2015–January 17, 2016 with an accompanying catalogue.