Madame d’Ora | Neue Galerie NY
February 20, 2020 - March 12, 2020
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ACTRESS AND DANCER ELSIE ALTMANN-LOOS, 1922
Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), better known as Madame d’Ora, was an unusual woman for her time with a spectacular career as one of the leading photographic portraitists of the early 20th century. This exhibition, the largest museum retrospective on the Austrian photographer to date in the United States, will present the different periods of her life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society photographer, through her survival during the Holocaust. Forging a path in a field that was dominated by men, d’Ora enjoyed an illustrious 50-year career, from 1907 until 1957. The show will include more than 100 examples of her work, which is distinguished for its extreme elegance, and utter depth and darkness.
SEVERED COW’S LEGS IN A PARISIAN ABATTOIR, ca 1954-1957
WRITER COLETTE (SIDONIE-GABRIELLE COLETTE), 1954
