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 worldâ€ÂÂÂA? 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.

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Linda Wolf-Leon Russell (1970 mad dogs and englishman tour)-

6.75 x 10

Color copy of set list included with artwork. 8.5 x 11

 Value: $550