Jamaica
1951 · Gelatin silver print
10 3/4 × 10 3/4" (27.3 × 27.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe
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9
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19
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Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Glamour Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Color Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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Modern Art in Your Life
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1949
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Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943
About
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Louise Dahl-Wolfe was an American photographer known for her sophisticated use of color and geometric composition in fashion and portrait work during the mid-twentieth century. Working primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, she developed a distinctive approach to studio lighting that emphasized clean lines and bold chromatic relationships. Her photographs appeared regularly in Harper's Bazaar and other major publications, establishing a visual language that departed from the softer pictorialism of her contemporaries. She worked across fashion, still life, and portraiture with equal technical precision and formal invention.
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