Madame d'Ora - actor Harry Walden

Original vintage gelatin silver print by Madame D'Ora, signed and dated 1914 in the negative

AGE: c. 1914
PROCESS: vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper
DIMENSIONS: c. 13.5 x 8.4 cm
CONDITION: overall very good – all imperfections as illustrated.

Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer
In 1907, she established her own studio with Arthur Benda in Vienna called the Atelier d’Ora or Madame D'Ora-Benda. The name was based on the pseudonym "Madame d'Ora", which she used professionally. D'ora and Benda operated a summer studio from 1921 to 1926 in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and opened another gallery in Paris in 1925. The Karlsbad gallery allowed D'Ora to cater to the "international elite vacationers." These same clients later convinced her to open her Paris studio.

Harry Walden, born Ludwig Patrick Harry Schreier (born 1875, in Berlin; died 1921, in the same city), was a German stage actor with a brief but intense film career in Vienna during the late 1910s.