In a self-portrait of 1929, the photographer Madam d’Ora looks into the lens from behind a reclining black cat, her face half hidden. All we see are wary eyes and a cap of wavy dark hair. Dora Kallmus, the daughter of Jewish intellectuals, was born in 1881 and became famous as Austria’s first professional female photographer. She had studios in Vienna and Paris, and celebrities of the day flocked to her camera, which always seemed to catch the essential in high style. Gustav Klimt, Coco Chanel, Colette, Josephine Baker, Pablo Picasso, the list sails on. When the Nazis occupied France in 1940, Kallmus hid in her Paris apartment until she could escape to the countryside. Her sister in Vienna, Anna, was deported to Lodz in 1941 and killed in the Holocaust. After the war, Kallmus began haunting the slaughterhouses of Paris, taking photographs of butchered animals; she also turned her lens to refugee camps. The Millesgården exhibition presents both realms of d’Ora’s work—imaginative flight and voiceless suffering. —Laura Jacobs