Name: Brooke Shields Portrait
Brand: Henry Wolf
Rating: 4.9 (44 reviews)

Brooke Shields Portrait

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About the Item

Rare portrait of Brooke Shields. Vintage C-print (8 x 12 inches) taken by Henry Wolf, circa 1972 in a photo session for Clairol Corporation. The photograph was also published in “Visual Thinking, Methods for Making Images Memorable” by Henry Wolf, which is widely considered one of Wolf‘s most important publications concerning his methods, his style, and his prodigious talent as a photographer, graphic designer, and teacher. Wolf’s photograph above captures Brooke Shields in her inimitable childhood maturity that radiated childhood innocence inflected with a nascent self-awareness of herself as one of the most beloved stars of her age. Provenance: Henry Wolf gifted the Brooke Shields portrait to the German-American contemporary photographer Guenter Knop. Henry Wolf hired Knop as his collaborator and Studio Assistant . Knop worked closely with Wolf from 1981to 1891 particularly in the area of lighting and setting up shots. Who was Henry Wolf? Henry Wolf was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria on May 23, 1925. With Hitler in power in 1938, his secure childhood in Vienna ended, and his family left Austria and began a three-year odyssey through France and North Africa. Wolf studied art in Paris, but after hiding from the Germans and living in two detention camps in Morocco, the family relocated to the United States in 1941. Wolf joined the Army in 1943, serving with an intelligence unit in the Pacific until 1946. Wolf worked with photographers Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky and Art Kane before he launched his own photography studio on the upper East Side of New York. Wolf became the art director of Esquire in 1952. His designs were synonymous with the sophisticated image for which Esquire is known. In 1958, Wolf became the art director of Harper's Bazaar, succeeding Alexey Brodovitch. Wolf collaborators included Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, and Man Ray. After working for three years for Harper's Bazaar, Wolf left to start a new magazine, Show, for A&P Heir Huntington Hartford. In 1965 Wolf began working for McCann Erickson where he directed high-profile advertisement campaigns for Alka Seltzer, Buick, Gillette and Coca-Cola. Wolf later joined advertising executive, Jane Trahey, forming Trahey/Wolf, serving as vice president and creative director. For the next few years, Wolf worked on many commercial campaigns, including Saks Fifth Avenue and I Magnin, as well as advertisements for Xerox, IBM, Revlon, De Beers, Blackgama Mink, Charles of the Ritz, Elizabeth Arden, and Union Carbide. In 1971 Wolf launched Henry Wolf Productions, a studio devoted to photography, film and design. For the next three decades, Wolf worked both as a photographer and a designer, creating over 500 television commercials and nine films, shooting for Van Cleef & Arpels, RCA, Revlon, Borghese, Olivetti and Karastan among others. Wolf's work was published in many magazines, including Esquire, Town and Country, Domus, and New York. Wolf taught graphic design at Parsons School of Design in New York, as well as the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union. Henry Wolf died on February 14, 2005 at the age of 80. Awards • American Institute of Graphic Arts was awarded to Henry Wolf on October 12, 1976 for Lifetime Achievement • Inducted in the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and the Royal Society of Arts in 1980 • Received the Herb Lubalin Award from the Society of Publication Designers in 1989 • Awarded Doctor of Fine Arts by Parsons School of Design in 1996 Publications Wolf, Henry. Visual Thinking: Methods for Making Images Memorable (1988) *Wolf, Henry. Photographed by Henry Wolf • Kane, Art. Photography Book (with introduction by Henry Wolf) • AIGA Henry Wolf: A Retrospective (1976) * (the above biographical details of Henry Wolf is reworked from his biography in Wikipedia.

Creator:
Henry Wolf (1925 - 2005, American, Austrian)
Creation Year:
ca, 1974
Dimensions:
Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
1970-1979
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: 44611stDibs: LU518166692