Madame D'Ora

Madame D'Ora

by Lisa Silverman, Magdelena Vukovic, Monika Faber, Esther Ruelfs

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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 siècle 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.

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    How does Madame d'Ora’s transition from fin de siècle Vienna to 1920s Paris reflect the broader cultural and artistic shifts of interwar Europe?

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    In what ways does d'Ora's photography challenge or reinforce traditional notions of gender, identity, and performance during the Art Deco era?

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    Consider the duality of d'Ora’s career as both a commercial society portraitist and an avant-garde artist; how do these two sides of her work inform one another?

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