An article in the New York Times put it this way:(June 6, 2000):
''Louise has a pivotal role moving fashion photography out of formal studio work into a portrayal of the active, modern American woman,'' Amy Rule, an archivist at the Center for Creative Photography, said.
Her husband was also an artist:
It was on a train platform in Tunisia in 1928 that Miss Dahl, 32, spotted her future husband, a sculptor from Tennessee named Meyer Wolfe. ''She saw him,'' Irving Solero, who befriended Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe in 1978, recalled, ''and said, 'That's for me.' '' The two married that same year.
Without fail, those who knew Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe remark on the intense bond she and her husband shared. ''They lived together nonstop, 24 hours a day,'' said Mr. Solero, who spent time with the couple in their Frenchtown, N.J., home, known as the Creamery. ''They fought all the time, but a fight would erupt for five seconds and then it was over.'' Mr. Wolfe would travel with his wife, typically picking her up for lunch during out-of-town shoots.
Dahl-Wolfe took this photo below, which was published in a 1951 Harper's Bazaar issue.
According to another source, "Louise Dahl-Wolfe introduced a witty naturalism to the staid conventions of fashion photography...."
Well put.
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