Linda Wolf Explained

Linda Wolf
Birth Name:Linda Ann Wolf
Birth Date:17 March 1950
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse:Eric Kuhner
Children:3

Linda Ann Wolf (born March 17, 1950) is an American photographer and writer.[1] She is one of the first female rock and roll photographers. Wolf also makes fine art photography with an emphasis on women and global photojournalism.[2] [3]

Early life and education

Wolf was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 17, 1950, and raised in Sherman Oaks, California. Her mother, Barbara Wolf (née Friedman), is a poet and was a fashion model and English literature teacher at Beverly Hills High School. Her father, Joseph Wolf, was a businessman and avid photographer. Wolf's interest in photography was born out of her father's passion for photography. He bought her first camera for her when she was a teenager.

Wolf attended Hollywood High School and graduated in 1968. In 1969, she began dating Sandy Konikoff, the drummer for Jackson Browne. He invited her to live at Paxton Lodge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Elektra Records was recording one of Browne's first albums. There was a darkroom at the studio, and she was inspired by the experience and made a decision to pursue photography professionally.

Wolf's grandfather, Jules Wolf, managed the historic Lincoln Theater, often called the Apollo of the West.[4]

From 1970 to 1975, she lived and studied in Provence, France, attending the Institute for American Universities, and L'Ecole Experimental Photographic.[5]

Her early photographic work in France focused on people and village life in the Vaucluse Mountains.[6]

Upon returning to the US, Wolf attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She taught photography through the University of California at Los Angeles Extension and worked as a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Citywide Mural Project.[7]

Rock & roll photography

1969 – Fanny

In 1969, Wolf began working at Warner Bros./Reprise Records, where she met the first all-girl rock band to sign with a major record label, Fanny. They became friends, and she moved in with the group at Fanny Hill, a mansion on Marmont Lane in Hollywood, where she lived for a year and a half as the band's documentary photographer. Over 80 of Wolf's archival photos of Fanny are presented in the documentary of the band, Fanny: The Right to Rock[8] During her stay, she met Lowell George and band members from Little Feat and began photographing them as well.[9]

1970 – Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour

Wolf met Joe Cocker a week before the Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour began. He had just arrived in the U.S. and was staying with his roadie and keyboard player at Leon Russell's house. His record label informed him that he was to start a U.S. tour in six days, but he had just recently broken with his band, The Grease Band. Russell offered to quickly assemble a touring band, and recruited over 40 of his friends. Denny Cordell, who produced the tour, invited Wolf along after seeing her photography. She and Andee Nathanson were the two official photographers for the two-month U.S. concert tour, which included Russell, Rita Coolidge, Chris Stainton, Claudia Lennear, Bobby Keys, Pamela Polland, Matthew Moore, and musicians representing the Tulsa Sound including Carl Radle, Jim Keltner, and Chuck Blackwell.

The music documentary Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen was released in 1971 and credited Wolf for her tour photography.[10]

Wolf authored Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen: A Memory Book, which included over 150 new photographs, quotes and stories from alumni. It was released in 2015 at the Lockn' Festival.

On September 11, 2015, Wolf joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band & Friends and alumni from the 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour, as the official photographer, and sang in the encore with the Space Choir, for a tribute concert to honor Joe Cocker and the Mad Dogs and Englishmen music. Participating alumni included Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Chris Stainton, and Pamela Polland.[11]

Cocker died on December 22, 2014, and Wolf's photographs were used in articles written about his life and music legacy by the Associated Press.[12] [13]

2020 – Tribute: Cocker Power

On April 28, 2020, Insight Editions released Tribute: Cocker Power, a 335-page coffee table book featuring Wolf's documentary photos, tour alumni stories, and vignettes from the Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour and the 2015 tribute concert at the Lockn' Festival led by the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Leon Russell and original tour alumni. The book, which received favorable reviews, was released on the 50th anniversary of the tour. It includes contributions from over one hundred musicians and crew members, including Denny Cordell, Leon Russell, Chris Stainton, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, and Warren Haynes.[14]

Public art projects

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Wolf created a public art project of murals consisting of photos of ordinary people sitting on bus benches. The photographs were placed on the sides of buses and the backs of bus benches in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Oakland, California in the US, and Arles, France. The benches were conceived as a response to the dehumanizing effects of advertising,[15] [16] [17] and were exhibited in numerous venues including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Rencontres International Festival of Photography in Arles, France.[18] One of the benches sits in the courtyard of Musée Réattu as part of their permanent collection in Arles.[19]

Wolf then developed the project L.A. Welcomes the World, a series of large-scale multicultural portraits of people presented on billboards throughout Los Angeles, for the 1984 Summer Olympics, which was sponsored by Eastman Kodak.[20]

Organizations

Publications

Books by Wolf

Books with contributions by Wolf

Films

Documentary shorts featuring Wolf's photography

Films with contributions by Wolf

Awards

Collections

Wolf's photographs are in the collections of:

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions: 1980–2021

Solo exhibitions

Exhibitions curated by Wolf

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Talk About Pictures - Guest Linda Wolf. Leighwiener.com. June 21, 2023.
  2. Web site: 10 fotógrafas famosas que tienes que ver - Linda Wolf. March 10, 2014. Fotografonofotografo.wordpress.com. January 25, 2018.
  3. Web site: Linda Wolf - SheSource Expert - Women's Media Center. Womensmediacenter.com. June 21, 2023.
  4. Book: The Theater of Black Americans: The presenters. The participators. 9780139127250. Hill. Errol. 1980.
  5. Fabricius, Klaus, and Saunders, Red. 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles. Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1984, p. 271.
  6. Linda Wolf: Faces in Time, Petersen's Photographic Magazine, May 1976, p. 62-70.
  7. Muchnic, Suzanne, Moving to Back of Bus Bench, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1979, p. IV- 9.
  8. Web site: Forgotten rock legend 'Fanny' takes the Boston Women's Film Festival stage. Wbur.org.
  9. Web site: Through the Eyes of Women Radio - Join Host Brenda Starr When She Discusses "FANNY", Rock'n'Roll and Teens With Photographer, Writer And Non-Profit Architect LINDA WOLF. Khsuwomen.wordpress.com. July 7, 2013.
  10. Web site: IMDB - Joe Cocker:Mad Dogs & Englishmen (film) - Credit: Linda Wolf Tour Photographer . .
  11. Rolling Stone Magazine - Inside Tedeschi Trucks Band All Star Joe Cocker Tribute Concert - Linda Wolf Photography - July 14, 2015 - David Browne. Rolling Stone. July 14, 2015.
  12. Web site: Joe Cocker made others' songs his own. Mikael Wood. December 23, 2014. Eagle-Tribune. June 21, 2023.
  13. Web site: Joe Cocker, raspy singer who emerged as star at Woodstock, dies - Associated Press Monday, December 22, 2014. Sfgate.com . December 23, 2014 .
  14. Web site: Ruggiero. Bob . Lavish Book Celebrates Joe Cocker's Legendary "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" Tour . Houston Press. April 23, 2020 . May 1, 2020.
  15. Linda Wolf: Friends in Common, Petersen's Photographic, June 1982, p 56.
  16. Stavitsky, Gail. Art on the Streets, Artweek, December 13, 1980, p. 12.
  17. Murray, Joan, Photography:Images in Transit, Artweek, December 13, 1980, p 1.
  18. Apodaca, Patrice. A Celebration of Humanity, The Rangefinder, September 1982, p 6.
  19. Web site: September 29, 2018. Arles: atour des Thermes et le Musée Réattu (photos). Minizup.
  20. Klein, Patricia, Who Is That on the Billboard Over There?, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 10, 1983
  21. Web site: On Bainbridge Island, female photographers take the spotlight. September 22, 2017. Crosscut.com. January 25, 2018.
  22. Web site: Peter Palmquist collection of women in photography . September 27, 2017 . August 19, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200819064446/http://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1279?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=beinecke:wipa&query=Linda%20Wolf&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&hlon=yes&big=&adv=&filter=&hitPageStart=1&sortFields=&view=all . dead .
  23. Web site: WIPI History Starting 1981 - Women In Photography International. womeninphotography.org. January 25, 2018.
  24. Wolf, Linda, Hughes, K. Wind.Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood (1997). New Society, 1997.
  25. Wolf, Linda, Welton, Neva. Speaking and Listening from the Heart, 2005.
  26. Wolf, Linda, Welton, Neva. Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century; Stories from a New Generation of Activists. New Society, 2001. p. 1
  27. Web site: GALLERY - Women Rising Radio Project. Womenrisingradio.com. January 25, 2018.
  28. Web site: KVNF radio - Talkin Music - Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Memory Book - Linda Wolf -Ali Lightfoot. Kvnf.com . December 4, 2015 .
  29. Web site: Caravan Asylum Seekers from Linda Wolf on Vimeo - November 27, 2018 Ray Garrido. Kitsapiac.org. November 28, 2018 .
  30. Web site: Linda Wolf: You Don’t Need Confidence to Lead. Audrey. Cavenecia. Audreycavenecia.medium.com. December 28, 2021. December 5, 2023.
  31. Web site: 'Fanny: The Right to Rock' screens at Bainbridge Island Film Festival with local ties. September 21, 2023. Knkx.org. December 5, 2023.
  32. Web site: SOLA - Awardees. Solaseattle.org. December 5, 2023.
  33. Web site: France TV Culture, Arts, Photography - Wolf Photographed at exhibit in 1981 with caption. Francetvinfo.fr. June 30, 2019.
  34. Web site: BnF Catalogue général. Catalogue.bnf.fr. June 21, 2023.
  35. "Notice de recueil". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed April 7, 2017
  36. Web site: Voice of America - Bibliothèque Nationale de France - Linda Wolf. Voiceamerica.com.
  37. Web site: Interview with photographer/writer Linda Wolf - founder of several nonprofit organizations to benefit youth. Blues.gr. June 21, 2023.
  38. Web site: Bainbridge Island Review - Historic rock 'n' roll photo show on display through January at Paper & Leaf - by Luciano Marano . Bainbridgereview.com. December 25, 2015.
  39. Web site: Linda Wolf - Guest Profile. Thedrpatshow.com. June 21, 2023.
  40. Web site: Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles soufflent le 1er juliet leurs cinquante bougies . franceinfo Culture avec agences . 2019.
  41. Web site: Refocus: Multicultural Focus . Santa Monica Art Studios . 2012.
  42. Book: Amazon -MULTICULTURAL FOCUS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION BICENTENNIAL . 1981 . 0917992024 .
  43. Web site: Argonaut News - Photos by Artists in 1981 featured in new show - Linda Wolf. Argonautnews.com. June 21, 2023.
  44. Web site: 'Women in Photography' explores diverse possibilities of familiar medium. August 29, 2017. Seattletimes.com. January 25, 2018.

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