Nude in water
(1941)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
27.2 × 26.5 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2025
© Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Louise Dahl-Wolfe studied at the California School of Fine Art, but turned to photography upon meeting the photographer Anne Brigman. For twenty-two years, Dahl-Wolfe worked as a principal photographer at Harper’s Bazaar in New York, and is recognised for her significant influence in reinvigorating the publication in the postwar era. Dahl-Wolfe worked on location rather than in a studio, and her photographs were suffused with a fresh, candid sensibility that captured the modern American woman. Beyond her commercial output, she photographed portraits, still lifes and nudes with what critics later described as a sense of ‘languorous sexuality’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
United States
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on support l.r.: Louise Dahl-Wolfe
Accession Number
2025.521
Department
International Photography