{"id":892,"date":"2011-07-26T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T02:25:08","slug":"tuesday-teaser-louise-dahl-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/tuesday-teaser-louise-dahl-wolfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Teaser: Louise Dahl-Wolfe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingydesignhistory.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/louise-dahl-wolfe.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_6G4sHd16DMs\/TCaCO_yA1cI\/AAAAAAAAAKA\/v3iydEdlQ84\/s400\/Louise%2BDahl-Wolfe%2BParis%2B1940%2B-%2BDior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born and educated in San Francisco, Louise Dahl-Wolfe would later work as a staff photographer for <em>Harper&#8217;s Bazaar<\/em> from 1936 through 1958. I recently came upon an extremely detailed account of her life and San Francisco beginnings on from <a href=\"http:\/\/angelasancartier.net\/louise-dahl-wolfe\">this website<\/a> (originally published in April 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895 \u2013 1989) was born in San Francisco. Aspiring to a career as a painter, she attended the California School of Design (now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfai.edu\/page.aspx?page=135\">San Francisco Art Institute<\/a>). . . . After completing her studies, Dahl-Wolfe designed electric signs from 1921 to 1923; in 1924 she began working for a leading decorator. In 1921 she was invited to the studio of photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/gettyguide\/artMakerDetails?maker=1760&amp;page=1\">Anne Brigman<\/a>; this meeting prompted her to buy her first camera, an Eastman bellows camera with a reflector made from a Ghirardelli chocolate box. She used her mother as the subject of her first pictures. Early photographic adventures included taking shots of herself and some friends nude on a beach, using the soft-focus style of her mentor. After Dahl-Wolfe befriended another San Francisco photographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0295972289\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=fashhistandwo-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399373&amp;creativeASIN=0295972289\">Consuela Kanaga<\/a>, who taught her to use a 314-by-414-inch Thorn-ton-Pickard English reflex camera with a Verito soft-focus lens, the two traveled together to Europe in 1927. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Dahl-Wolfe returned to San Francisco in 1928 and began taking commercial black-and-white photographs. . . . After moving with her husband to New York, Dahl-Wolfe was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/magazine\/vintage\/earlyyears\">Frank Crowninshield<\/a>, then editor of <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>, who decided to publish her work. . . . This success led to the publication of her first black-and-white fashion work in <em>Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em> in 1936 and her first color work a year later.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/angelasancartier.net\/louise-dahl-wolfe\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in researching Dahl-Wolfe&#8217;s work should check the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccp.library.arizona.edu\/sites\/ccp.library.arizona.edu\/files\/documents\/findingAid\/ag76dahlwolfe.pdf\">Louise Dahl-Wolfe Collection<\/a> at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona in Tucson and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/3464.asp\">Fashion Institute of Technology<\/a> in New York City.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sighswhispers.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/louise-dahl-wolfe-1950.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v441\/antbabe\/more%20photos\/harpersbazaar_june50_dahl-wolfe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Louise Dahl-Wolfe for Harper&#39;s Bazaar, June 1950. (Via Sighs &amp; Whispers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and educated in San Francisco, Louise Dahl-Wolfe would later work as a staff photographer for Harper&#8217;s Bazaar from 1936 through 1958. I recently came upon an extremely detailed account of her life and San Francisco beginnings on from this website (originally published in April 2010): &#8220;Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895 \u2013 1989) was born in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,93,91,1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fashionhistorian.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}