Autumn/Winter 2022
Restoration Conversations is a digital magazine spotlighting the achievements of women in history and today. We produce two issues a year: Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter
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MADAME D’ORA (1881–1963)<br />
was a Viennese photographer<br />
intent on immortalising the rich<br />
and famous. Josephine Baker,<br />
Tamara de Lempicka and Collette<br />
are just a few of the women<br />
she captured on camera. Until<br />
1925, she worked in Germany<br />
and Austria in tandem with her<br />
partner Arthur Benda, in a studio<br />
they called Benda-D’Ora.<br />
Exact authorship of the<br />
photographs the studio produced<br />
is difficult to determine, and<br />
it should be noted that Benda<br />
kept ‘D’Ora’ as part of the<br />
company name, even after the<br />
pair separated in 1927, despite<br />
Madame D’Ora having founded a<br />
Paris atelier two years earlier. Her<br />
Parisian studio remained open<br />
until Germany occupied the<br />
city, in 1940, at the height of the<br />
Second World War, after which<br />
Madame D’Ora, of Jewish descent,<br />
went into semi-hiding.<br />
10 Restoration Conversations • <strong>Autumn</strong> / <strong>Winter</strong> <strong>2022</strong>
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