Louise Dahl-wolfe, was a american photographer known for her work in fashion photography. Louise's style of
photography was based on fashion. She had a signature aesthetic style, straightforward and clear in focus because
she mainly worked in magazines Her style characterized and reflected that. Louise did a lot of fashion photos for
the magazine cover of bazaar. Dahl-wolfe influenced many people and supported a new era of women's fashion.
Louie shot with a lot of natural lighting and for a fashion magazine photographer that wasn't seen as that common.
Louise shot a lot of straight photography. I personally like her photographs because i love fashion and i like to take
fashion photos of my friends. She shot a lot of black and white photos that
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have. Her subject was normally women wearing fashionable clothes at that time because she worked for fashion magazines. The women are mainly placed in very feminine positions with a lot of flowing objects. In most of her photos they are taken outside and are in black and white. In my opinion one of the most interesting photos of hers is the “mary jane russel in dior dress, paris”.
I think this
photo really describes here because it is a beautiful black and white photo which she does alot and it has a really
good contrast. Louise had photographed many famous women. I think what interests me the most about louie's
photographs is how she captures almost a candid moment with her models, they pose with such a vogue image,
they are almost never looking at the camera.
Another image of louise's i find interesting is herimahe “twins on the beach, 1955” because i love how they are
poor and how they look identical within the posed and how their pose sort of draws you to the center of the photo
to me. Also the way louise photographed them is very symmetrical.
A third photo i admire of hers is her “dior ballgown,paris,1950” i love how the light is shining on the model
lighting up her face and dress leaving the back minorly lit making her pop out . i love the way the model reflections
in the mirror thanks to the light.
To critique louise's work i would first say that i would have liked to see most of her black and white photographs in
color. The artworks she had done in color for fashion magazines were so amazing to me from her style that i
think that there was a missed opportunity but it does add to an image sometimes to make it black and white. Because of the natural light she used i really like the shadows in some of her pictures.
Perhaps the most highly regarded of all Canadian portraits, the rendering of this mysterious woman sparks our curiosity through her captivating eyes and coy smile. She reappears in many of Varley’s paintings, and photographs by John Vanderpant, and later Harold Mortimer Lamb. An inspirational muse to many famous Canadian artists, her own worth as an artist is often underrated.
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The photograph depicts a mother and daughter sitting at the dining room table applying makeup together. This tender moment displays the mother at the head of the table and the daughter is to her right(your left). The two are both applying lipstick with their right hand and have their makeup scattered on the table. The daughter has a smaller mirror than her mother. The black and white photograph has grey tones ranging from black to white.
Muriel King showed us Fashion in a way never seen before but showed us her creativity in another art form painting.Muriel did many things to contribute to the fashion industry today.She was one of the first known woman fashion designers in America.Her career in the fashion industry lasted for over four decades.Her artwork traveled the world and inspired other people to show their creativity.She used one type of art and formed it into another form creating a masterpiece.She traveled around the world and worked with big fashion companies sharing her artwork. Muriel was born in the Bay view,Washington in 1900.She went to school as an art student and went to the University of Washington.She learned a lot at the university and had the chance to experience designing costumes.She would on the side design theater costumes.That is when her whole fashion career started.She moved to New York in the early 1920’s to start her designing career.She started off with becoming a fashion illustrator for the magazines Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.In 1932 she opened up her own shop at East 61st Street in N...
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... influence on English society and the rest of the world, and peaked a large amount of interest in her and her peoples lifestyle (Fromm, Web). Being shown on many different occasions in forms of art, in a way that related her to the culture of the artist, showed that she successfully promoted interactions between people, even in her role as a muse after her death (Fromm, Web).
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