Author: Ora, Madame d' [Dora Kallmus].
Title: Madame d'Ora.
Description: Edited by Monika Faber. Munich : Prestel, [2020]. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 231 pp. color illustrations. portraits. 30 cm. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - 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 sie`cle 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. Contents ; Preface / Ronald S. Lauder -- Foreword / Rene´e Price -- Acknowledgments -- Working by feeling and intuition: Dora Kallmus's innovative path to becoming a sought-after photographer of the famous and beautiful / Monika Faber -- Family constellation / Monika Faber -- A dog's life between clients and darkroom / Christian Brandsta¨tter -- Plates I -- D'Ora's photographs of woman in the illustrated magazines of the 1920s / Esther Ruelfs -- Madame Agne`s / Monika Faber -- D'Ora and the history of Ullstein / Katrin Bomhoff -- Plates II -- ...That would mean passing through this unfamiliar world with my eyes closed, and that would be unforgivable / Jean-Marc Dreyfus -- Art of loss: D'Ora's slaughterhouse photographs and Haus Doranna / Lisa Silverman -- The sun king's party / Magdalena Vukovic´ -- Coming to a close: D'Ora's final creative phase, 1938-58 / Magdalena Vukovic´ -- Plates III. ISBN 9783791359700.

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY,