"Renowned as the world's leading female fashion photographer from the 1930s to the 1960s, Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was acclaimed for her fashion photographs, still lifes, and portraits. Her fame reached its apogee after she joined Harper's Bazaar, the vanguard of women's magazines. She evolved a signature style of "environmental" fashion photographs, taking pictures in natural light and on location, all the while experimenting with new color technology. As the expression of a new American lifestyle, her photographs were relaxed and accessible, yet exotic. Dahl-Wolfe helped to personify the American woman: spirited, worldly, and above all, free. This book is the first comprehensive retrospective on this important photographer. In addition to her fashion image, the 200 photographs gathered here include Louise Dahl-Wolfe's experimental color work and black-and-white portraits of such luminaries as Mae West, Cecil Beaton, Josephine Baker, Christian Dior, Orson Welles, Isamu Noguchi, and others."--book jacket.
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