[Woman standing at window]
Photograph
[Woman standing at window]
1947
Dye imbibition print
Image (flush mount): 16 × 12 7/16 × 1/16 in. (40.7 × 31.6 × 0.2 cm)
Museum accession by exchange
1975.0077.0002
Inscriptions Signed in pencil on mount verso, TL: Louise Dahl Wolfe \ NY /1947
TextLouise Dahl-Wolfe’s creative approach to fashion photography helped shape the fashion industry. Hired by Carmel Snow in 1936, she worked at Harper’s Bazaar for 22 years, during which time she influenced a slew of younger photographers, including Richard Avedon. Dahl-Wolfe was a meticulous artist, often shooting on location using natural light and printing her work in color. Instead of saturating this interior scene with floodlights, she allows the sunshine to illuminate the model, leaving other parts of the room in the shadows. Dahl-Wolfe’s practices were revolutionary in the 1930s and ’40s, when fashion photography was mostly done in studio and printed in black and white.
