Dora Kallmus
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Dora Kallmus (1881 - October 28,
1963) was an Austrian photographer.
With Arthur Benda, she opened a photography studio under the pseudonym
Madame d'Ora in Vienna in 1907. She was popular among the Austro-Hungarian
aristocracy, and worked as a salon photographer until she left Vienna for
Paris in 1925. In Paris, she became internationally known for her society
and fashion photography during the 1930s and 1940s. Her subjects included
Josephine Baker, Tamara de Lempicka, Alban Berg, Niddy Impekoven, Maurice
Chevalier, Colette, and other dancers, actors, painters, and writers.