Background
Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born on November 19, 1895 in San Francisco, California, United States to Norwegian immigrant parents. She was the youngest of three daughters.
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born on November 19, 1895 in San Francisco, California, United States to Norwegian immigrant parents. She was the youngest of three daughters.
In 1914, Louise Dahl-Wolfe began her studies at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Institute of Art), where she studied design and color with Rudolph Schaeffer, and painting with Frank Van Sloan. She studied design, decoration and architecture at Columbia University, New York in 1923.
From 1933 to 1960, Louise Dahl-Wolfe operated a New York City photographic studio that was home to the freelance advertising and fashion work she made for stores including Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue. From 1936 to 1958 she was a staff fashion photographer at Harper’s Bazaar. She produced portrait and fashion photographs totaling 86 covers, 600 color pages and countless black-and-white shots.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe worked with editor Carmel Snow, art director Alexey Brodovitch and fashion editor Diana Vreeland, and traveled widely. In 1950, she was selected for "America"s Outstanding Woman Photographers" in the September issue of Foto. From 1958 until her retirement in 1960, Louise Dahl-Wolfe worked as a freelance photographer for Vogue, Sports Illustrated, and other periodicals.
Louise Dahl-Wolfe lived many of her later years in Nashville, Tennessee. She died in New Jersey of pneumonia in 1989.
The full archive of Dahl-Wolfe"s work is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of her work. In 1999, her work was the subject of a documentary film entitled Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light. The film featured the only surviving modern footage of Dahl-Wolfe, including extensive interviews.
In 1928 Louise Dahl-Wolfe married the sculptor Meyer Wolfe, who constructed the backgrounds of many of her photos.
