Louise Dahl-Wolfe

“Louise Dahl-Wolfe, one of the most celebrated photographers of the thirties, forties, and fifties, was a uniquely American artist whose work had enormous ramifications for Horst, Avedon, Penn, and other great photographers who followed her.  Working in the heyday of Harper’s Bazaar with editor-in-chief Carmel Snow and renowned fashion editor Diana Vreeland, she came to fashion photography at a time when formal, sometimes stilted European elegance was the norm and infused it with her fresh new vision–informal, intimate, and undeniably American.  She pioneered the use of natural lighting in fashion photography and also brought many of her famous portrait subjects out-of-doors.” http://www.vivandlarry.com/classic-film/spotlight-louise-dahl-wolfe/