Dahl-Wolfe

Louise (1895-1990). American photographer. Educated in the arts, she became interested in painting as a student at the Art Institute of San Francisco between 1914 and 1922. She attended classes on color given by Rudolph Schaeffer, and these would be of great importance when she distinguished herself in 1937 for being among the first to use warm and elegant colors in fashion photography. In 1927, she began to take commercial photographs for an interior designer, and these recalled the style of the pictorialist photographer Brigman. It was only in 1933 that Vanity Fair first published her landscapes and portraits. In that same year, she opened a studio in New York. She worked for Harper’s Bazaar from 1935 up to her retirement in 1958, and distinguished herself for a particularly suggestive taste in composition and ambience for both interiors and exteriors that introduced a modern and dynamic model for the new American woman.