Her archives, preserved by the 3M Foundation, have widely toured throughout Europe and a revival of interest in evaluating her skill as a technician has developed in the 21st century.

[6] A skilled retoucher she went to great lengths to conceal her improvements to images, such as sharpening details, increasing the light contrast, and employing airbrush.

[9] She began publishing images in fashion magazines under the name of Ghitta Carell competing with the British photographer Eva Barrett, for space in publications like L'Illustrazione Italiana.

In Carell's photographs, he was portrayed in almost Hollywood-like glamor, as a refined intellectual, with the only reference to politics being a National Fascist Party badge in his buttonhole.

[19] At the beginning of World War II, in 1938, Carell came under the scrutiny of the police,[20] but her high-powered relationships allowed her to remain in the country, despite her Jewish heritage.

[citation needed] After the war ended, she continued to make photographs of high-powered society figures and in 1959, renounced her Hungarian citizenship to become a naturalized Italian.

[2] Carell died on 8 January 1972 in Haifa[21] and was largely forgotten or dismissed as an ideological photographer[22] until the 21st century, when critical analysis of her techniques renewed.