Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was born and raised in San Francisco. After attending the San Francisco Institute of Art, where she studied painting and color theory, she worked as an interior designer. When she turned her attention to photography, she applied her prior training to her new career. \u201cI believe the camera is a medium of light, that one actually paints with light,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Dahl-Wolfe began her association with Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/em> in 1936, when photography was becoming increasingly prevalent in American fashion magazines, replacing illustration. Dahl-Wolfe\u2019s skill as a colorist offered a new perspective. Using a Graflex camera, or occasionally a more portable Rolleiflex, she developed an elegant, easy style of photography. Color photographs had appeared in Bazaar<\/em> before, but her knack for accuracy and tone made Dahl-Wolfe\u2019s work notable. As Carmel Snow said, \u201cShe revolutionized the Bazaar<\/em> . . . because she developed color photography to its ultimate.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) was born and raised in San Francisco. After attending the San Francisco Institute of Art, where she studied painting and color theory, she worked as an interior designer. When she turned her attention to photography, she applied her prior training to her new career. \u201cI believe the camera is a medium of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.fitnyc.edu\/women-of-harpers-bazaar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}