Liz Gibbons Modeling a Floral Dress, Cuba

Creator

American Photographer · 1895–1898

Louise Dahl-Wolfe was born and raised in San Francisco, where she studied at the San Francisco Institute of Art. She designed electric signs, but a visit in 1921 to photographer Anne Brigman's studio sparked her interest in photography. A first attempt to "do Brigmans,"--i.e., to make photographs that looked like Brigman's celebrated images, with a group of friends among the cypress trees of Point