It may be a private photographer's work from a news archive. In France newspapers used photos from private photographers who would cut the borders ornately. Here is a photo of Kid Francis, a boxer who was murdered at Auschwitz during WWII, taken by a private photographer that ended up in the archive of a French newspaper:
And another one of promoter Philippe Roth:
I'm not saying the Ruth is genuine, just that the border may not explain what it is.