Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Famed female photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe shot over 86 Harpers Bazaar covers between 1936-1958, as well as portraits of Carson McCullers, Orson Wells, and Christian Dior.  She favored portraitures over fashion photography and pioneered the use of natural light.  She practically invented "on location" fashion photography traveling to South America and Africa (back then called "environmental" photography), and influenced Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. She exhibits a quietness in her photos, an intimacy as the viewer witnesses an chance moment of solitude with the subject.

      

Images from Mocp.org and staleywise.com