Fashion (Paris Studios, Harper's Bazaar)

Dahl-Wolfe revolutionized fashion photography, with her intimate knowledge of art history and her early explorations in color photography. From 1936 to 1958 she worked for Harper’s Bazaar, which featured her work on 86 covers and thousands of interior pages. The magazine allowed her the unusual privilege to work out of her private studio. Dahl-Wolfe is credited with developing a style of fashion photography that portrayed women as strong and independent. Educated at the San Francisco Art Institute, Dahl-Wolfe credits her interest in photography to one of her precursors, Anne Brigman, who was celebrated for her pictorialist photographs of figures outdoors in the Sierra Nevadas and championed by the Photo Secession in New York.