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November 19, 2017

November 19, 1895

According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts: "Louise Dahl-Wolfe introduced a witty naturalism to the staid conventions of fashion photography..." Louise Dahl-Wolfe (November 19, 1895 to December 11, 1989) was a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar.

Witty. Natural: Dahl-Wolf's shot for a 1947 Harper's Bazaar issue.





Per the New York Times on June 6, 2000:

"During her time at Bazaar, a 22-year tenure that ended when she quit in 1958, ....Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe chronicled the birth of a looser, less pinched spirit in American fashion. With Diana Vreeland as her fashion editor, Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe traveled around the world, shooting that new concept, sportswear, out of doors where it comfortably breathed. Before the triumvirate....[which included] Mrs. Vreeland and Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe, American style, as Richard Avedon has put it, did not exist."

Louise Dahl-Wolfe is also remembered for her portraiture, which included subjects like W. H. Auden and Colette, just to mention cat-lovers.
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