Dates: | 1895, 19 November - 1989, 11 December | Born: | US, CA, Almeda | Died: | US, NJ, Allendale | Active: | US | American advertising and fashion photographer. From 1936-1958 she worked for ‘Harper‘s Bazaar‘Preparing biographies
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe
The following are useful starting points for further research:
- Hall-Duncan, Nancy. The History of Fashion Photography. New York: Alpine Book Company, 1979. (Biographical information)
- Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1997. (Biographical information)
- The Art of William Edmondson. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1999, 3-14. (Very helpful for her non-fashion photography and compares her to Edward Weston)
- Booth, Pat ed. Master Photographers: The World’s Great Photographers on their Art and Technique. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.,1983. (Q & A interview)
- Edwards, Jennifer. “Louise Dahl-Wolfe.” Original Sources: Art and Archives at the Center for Creative Photography. Ed. by Amy Rule and Nancy Soloman. Tucson, Arizona: Center for creative Photography, 2002, 79-84. (Biographical information and details on her archives)
{Kindly contributed by Nicole Garvin.]
Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist. [NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.] | Show on this site | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
• Bauret, Gabriel (ed. and text) 2001 Color Photography (New York: Assouline) [Includes example color photographs by Louise Dahl-Wolfe] • Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.213, Plate 57 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of Louise Dahl-Wolfe this is a useful starting point.]
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