Madame d'Ora

Discover the work of legendary fashion and society photographer Madame d'Ora, who documented both the glamour and the tragedy of 20th-century Europe. Born Dora Kallmus (1881-1963), the Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d'Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siecle Vienna. After relocating to Paris in the 1920s, she opened one of the most stylish Art Deco portrait studios where her models included Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, and Collette, among many others. This book, accompanying the largest exhibition devoted to Madame d'Ora ever presented in the United States, includes sections focusing on the different periods of the photographer's life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society portraitist, through her survival during the Holocaust. AUTHOR: Monika Faber is Curator of the Photoinstitut Bonartes in Vienna. SELLING POINTS: . Madame d'Ora, born Dora Kallmus, was a famous portrait and fashion photographer in Vienna and Paris. Her studios became fashionable meeting places for the cultural and intellectual elite. D'Ora's achievements also paved the way for other European women's careers in photography. . This book showcases gorgeous portraits of artists and intellectuals from the time such as Coco Chanel, Collette, Pablo Picasso, Josephine Baker, Gustav Klimt, and other dancers, actors, painters, and writers. . This book presents the widest range of d'Ora's photography ever shown in the United States and covers the entirety of her career. 180 colour and b/w images