linda wolf
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Linda Wolf, (born March 17, 1950) is an American-born photographer and writer, and founder of several nonprofit
organizations to benefit youth. She is the daughter of poet, Barbara Wolf, and 1940's cinematographer, Joe Wolf. Her
photographs are housed in museums, libraries, and private collections world-wide, including the Bibliotheque Nationale,
Paris; Le Zilvermuseum Het Sterckshof, Belgium; Le Musee Reatu, Arles; Le Musee Cantini, Marseille; the Stephen White
Gallery, Los Angeles, and the Harborview Medical Center Art Collection. She currently lives and teaches part time in Mexico.
Wolf attended Hollywood High School, graduating in 1968. She
became a professional photographer as a teenager for the first
all-girl rock band to be signed by a major label, Fanny (1969),
and later an official photographer for the Joe Cocker Mad
Dogs and Englishmen Tour (1970). She was one of the “100 top
photographers in the world” for the book, Twenty-four Hours in
the Life of L.A.
From 1970-1975, she lived and studied in Provence, France,
attending the Institute of American Universities, and L'Ecole
Experimental Photographic, taught by Jean-Pierre Sudre and
Claudine Sudre. Her early photographic work in France focused
on women, gypsies, and village life in the Vaucluse Mountains,
the content of which is mainly between documentary
photography social photojournalism and portraiture.
Returning to the U.S. in 1975, Wolf taught photography
through the University of California Extension, worked as a staff
photographer for the Los Angles Citywide Mural Project, and
in 1981 co-founded the organization Women in Photography
International.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Wolf created a number of public
art projects, including "The Bus Bench Mural Projects,"
photographic murals of bus riders affixed to the benches
upon which they wait, and "L.A. Welcomes the World," a series
of large scale multicultural portraits of people presented on
billboards throughout Los Angeles, sponsored by Eastman
Kodak for the 1984 Summer Olympics. In 1981, she was a
representative of the United States in Arles, France at the
Rencontres International de la Photographie, and was the focus
of "Talk About Pictures," with Leigh Wiener on NBC/TV.
Since 1976, Wolf has received numerous recognitions, awards,
and grants for her photojournalism and humanitarian projects,
including support from the Puffin Foundation, California
Arts Council, RSF Social Finance, Bainbridge Island Arts and
Humanities Council, the Social and Public Arts Resource Center,
the Oakland Center for the Arts, Sony, Widelux, Ilford, Epson,
Electrovoice, Marrantz, and Eastman Kodak corporations. She
is currently working on a collection of documentary portraits
of women world-wide, supported in part through a fiveyear"Destiny Path" grant from the AnGeL Fund of the Rudolf
Steiner Foundation.
