[4] Photographing music and theatre celebrities, her work was published in journals such as Die Bühne, Moderne Welt, 'Welt und Mode and Uhu.

[5] In addition to portraits of Karl Kraus and Adolf Loos, in 1925 she took a nude series of the dancer Claire Bauroff[6] which the police confiscated when the images were displayed at a Berlin theatre, bringing her international fame.

She moved first to Paris, then to London and finally, together with her former student and companion Helen Post, in April 1939 to New York.

In 1940, she opened a studio on West 56th Street next to Carnegie Hall which she ran with Frank Elmer who had also emigrated from Vienna.

In addition to scenes of New York City, she photographed celebrities and notable immigrants including Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Oskar Kokoschka, Lotte Lehmann, Otto von Habsburg, Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi and Arturo Toscanini.