ABSTRACT

San Francisco Institute of Art. Beginning in 1914 and over the next six years, Dahl-Wolfe studied drawing, anatomy, design, and painting-subjects that would form the foundation for her subsequent career in photography. She learned the nuances of color arrangement, which she later put to use in her work with Kodachrome, one of the first commercially available color films. Her studies with the figure would also pay off, helping her to realize how the body’s form behaves beneath clothes.