Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Regarded as one of the most accomplished fashion photographers from the United States, Louise Dahl-Wolfe earned great recognition for her ample knowledge of techniques concerned with the use of color and light. She transformed and modernized the look of fashion magazines in the thirties, forties and fifties, the period during which she was active, and hence played a significant role in providing the world of fashion with a new image.
This book spans the extent of her career as a fashion photographer and includes a large selection of her photographs for Harper's Bazaar, where she worked for two decades, as well as her most emblematic front covers. But it also features her portraits and nudes, an aspect of her oeuvre which has been largely overlooked. Together, these photographs reveal the changes experienced by our society and lifestyle in the middle of the turbulent twentieth century.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe (San Francisco, California, 1895) studied Fine Arts in the California School of Fine Arts and initially worked as a photographer in Woman's Home Companion, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bonwit Teller, before joining Harper's Bazaar magazine, where she stayed for two decades. After retiring she wrote her memoirs, Louise Dahl-Wolfe: A Photographer's Scrapbook.