Linda Ann Wolf is a photographer, in her work the photographer strives to exalt people, to show them with dignity and integrity, and to celebrate the common ordinariness which unites all people regardless of race or national boundaries, age or sex.
Background
Linda Ann Wolf was born on March 17, 1950, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She raised in Sherman Oaks, California. Her mother, Barbara Wolf (née Friedman), is a poet and was a fashion model and English literature teacher at Beverly Hills High School. Her father, Joseph Wolf, was a businessman and avid photographer.
Education
Wolf's interest in photography was born out of her father's passion for photography. He bought her first camera when she was a teenager.
Linda Wolf attended Hollywood High School and graduated in 1968. In 1969, she began dating Sandy Konikoff, the drummer for Jackson Browne. He invited her to live at Paxton Lodge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Elektra Records was recording one of Browne's first albums. There was a dark room at the studio, and she was inspired by the experience and made a decision to pursue photography professionally.
She studied at L'Institut Américain (now IAU College) in Aixen-Provence, France, and at L'Ecole Expérimentale Photographique in La Coste, France. Upon returning to the US, Linda Wolf attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Career
In 1969, Linda Wolf began working at Warner Bros./Reprise Records, where she met the first all-girl rock band to sign with a major record label, Fanny. They became friends, and she moved in with the group at Fanny Hill, a mansion on Marmont Lane in Hollywood, where she lived for a year and a half as the band's documentary photographer. During her stay, she met Lowell George and band members from Little Feat and began photographing them as well.
Linda Wolf met Joe Cocker a week before the Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour began. He had just arrived in the U.S. and was staying with his roadie and keyboard player at Leon Russell's house. His record label informed him that he was to start a U.S. tour in six days, but he had just recently broken with his band, The Grease Band. Russell offered to quickly assemble a touring band and recruited over 40 of his friends. Denny Cordell, who produced the tour, invited Linda Wolf along after seeing her photography. She and Andee Nathanson were the two official photographers for the two-month U.S. concert tour.
On September 11, 2015, Linda Wolf joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band & Friends and alumni from the 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour, as the official photographer.
Linda Wolf also worked for Los Angeles Citywide Mural Project and for the Social and Public Art Resource Center in Venice, California (1978-1979). She was employed by Prolab Photographic Lab in Los Angeles (1976-1978) and taught for UCLA Extension in 1976.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Doyle Bramhall II: "Linda Wolf's photographs wondrously captured the zeitgeist of Joe Cocker, Mad Dog's & Englishmen. She captured a pivotal time and space of one of the most influential rock and roll singers and bands of all time. It's an extraordinary insider's perspective."