DORA: VIENNA & PARIS: 1907 - 1957
[THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF DORA KALLMUS]
Monika Faber [Curator]
Monika Faber [Curator]: DORA: VIENNA & PARIS: 1907 - 1957 [THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF DORA KALLMUS]. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1987. First edition [limited to 3,000 copies]. A very good soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including slight fore edge wear and minor creasing on the cover. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.5 x 12 soft cover book with 60 pages with 30 plates and 15 black-and-white text illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name: Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY [Apr 11 - June 7, 1987]; Shirley Goodman Resource Center, FIT, New York City [June 23 - Aug 1]; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, Sarasota [Oct 9 - Dec 23].
- Preface and Acknowledgments by Jan E. Adlmann
- About Madam d'Ora by Monika Faber
- Selected Plates
- Exhibition Chronology and Bibliography by Monika Faber
- List of Works in the Exhibition
From the website for the Jewish Women’s Archive [entry by Lisa Silverman]: “Madame d’Ora’s vibrant portraits of twentieth-century artists and intellectuals remain important testaments to European cultural life at the turn of the century and beyond. Not only did her high quality photographs of well-known figures such as Josephine Baker (1906–1975), Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) and Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) receive international acclaim, but her studios in Vienna and Paris also 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, an area in which many Jewish women in particular found success.”