Linda Wolf is a humanistic photographer known for her global portraiture which focuses on women and indigenous cultures. Over her near sixty years as an artist, she has moved seamlessly through photojournalism, fine art, street, documentary and portrait photography. She was one of the first women rock & roll photographers. Her archival photographs are featured in documentary films including Twenty Feet From Stardom; Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen; Fanny: The Right to Rock; and Learning to Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide and are collected in institutions, libraries and museums. Linda was one a hundred top global photographers chosen to participate in the book, Twenty-four Hours in the Life of L.A. and has contributed to numerous print media. In 2014, the MacArthur Foundation invited her to document human justice stories in Mexico, and to give a key-note speech at the Oaxaca State Department of Justice, and the Tanivet Women’s Prison on the philosophy of the non-profit she founded, Teen Talking Circles.

Linda was born in Los Angeles. Her father, Joe Wolf, was a cinematographer and the stuntman for Johnny Weissmuller, and her mother, an English teacher at Beverly Hills High School and former fashion model. Her grandfather, Jules Wolf, owned the Lincoln Theater, dubbed the Apollo of the West, and her paternal grandmother was the right hand woman to producer, Sol Lesser, at MGM.

From 1970-1975, Linda lived and studied in Provence, France, attending the Institute of American Universities and L'Ecole Experimental Photographic. Her documentary portraits of villagers in the South of France form part of permanent collections in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris among other institutions. She is a co-founder of Women in Photography International and taught photography through the University of California. She was the staff photographer for the Los Angeles Citywide Mural Project and the Social and Public Art Resource Center, in Venice, CA.

In 1984, she created America Welcomes the World for the 1984 Olympics, sponsored by Eastman Kodak. She is the author of the film, I am a Full Woman, and creator of the public art Bus Bench Mural Project — photos of bus riders affixed to the benches upon which they wait and the sides of buses. In 1985, her bus benches were exhibited at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, in Arles, France, where her work remains in permanent exhibit at Le Musee Reattu. She was featured on the Emmy award-winning NBC-TV “Talk About Pictures,” with Leigh Wiener.

In 1993, Linda founded the nonprofit Teen Talking Circles, which received the Athena Award for Mentoring. She is the co-author of award winning books for teens including, Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women & Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood (New Society Press) and Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century (New Society Press)

In 2020, her coffee table book, Tribute: Cocker Power was released by Insight Editions and can be found at www.cockerpowerbook.com

Linda Wolf es una conocida fotógrafa humanista nacida en 1950 en Estados Unidos. Ha destacado tanto por su fotografía como por su activismo social, es la fundadora de la organización sin ánimo de lucro Teen Talking Circles. Su fotografía ha estado influenciada desde sus comienzos por su activismo en el movimiento de liberación de la mujer de los 60, y se centra en reportajes sobre temas como la diversidad cultural, la mujer o la justicia social, aunque también se ha dedicado al fotoperiodismo. Es miembro fundador de la organización Women in Photography International

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REBEAT MAGAZINE: Rock Photographer Linda Wolf at Home With Fanny and on the Road
With Joe Cocker

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Gretchen Unico

Exhibitions & Permanent Collections:

June 24 - October 1st, 2017
Linda is co-curator of the Women in Photography exhibit at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA. (See Review)

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Le Zilvermuseum Het Sterckshof, Belgium
Le Musee Reatu, Arles
Le Musee Cantini, Marseille, France
The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Stephen White Gallery, Los Angeles
Harborview Medical Center Art Collection
Group Health Cooperative Art Collection
Paul & Annie Mahon Art Collection
Robert Haas Collection
Photographic Center of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo
Museum on O, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts: Women who Rock
Jean Rhodes Collection
Carrie Rhodes Collection
Los Angeles Barnsdall Park: Multicultural Focus Collaborative Exhibit
Arena 1 Gallery: Multicultural Refocus: part of Pacific Standard Time, initiated by the J. Paul Getty Museum
Fischer Gallery Museum of Art, USC: Sight Specific: LACPS and the Politics of Community
International Art of Photography Show, San Diego, California.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio: Women Who Rock Exhibit
Street Art, San Diego: The Bus Bench Mural Project - A bus bench public art project
Street Art, Los Angels: The Bus Bench Mural Project - A bus bench public art project
Street Art, Oakland: The Bus Bench Mural Project - A bus bench public art project
Street Art: LA Welcomes the World - A billboard pubic art project
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Women who Rock
La Chapelle des Penitents Bleus, Aix-en-Provence, France
Le Chateau de Goult, France
L'Ancienne Poste, Goult, France
The Chelsea Gallery, Santa Monica
L.A.C.E., LA
L.A.P.A., LA
The Photographer's Gallery, London
Grace Church, Bainbridge Island, WA.
Celluloid Bainbridge

Grants and Donations:

Rhodes Family Fund
AnJeL Fund
The Puffin Foundation
Rudolph Steiner Foundation
Bainbridge Island Arts
Humanities Council
Oakland Center for the Arts
Hahnemühle
Sony
Widelux
Ilford
Epson, USA
Electrovoice
Marantz
Kodak
Fuji Film
Think Tank
The California Arts Council
Bench Ad Company
ARCO Foundation
Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Winston Network
Air France
est Foundation
Gelfand Corporation
The Mansion on O

In the News:

MacArthur Foundation: Documenting women in prison, justice department and midwives
Rollingstone.com: Inside Tedeschi Trucks Band Joe Cocker Concert
Talkin' Music: Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Memory Book; Interview with Linda Wolf
Bainbridge Islander: Island Photographer Reunites with Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Blues GR: Interview with Linda Wolf
Cowbird Daily Pick: Ansel Adams Took my Picture: Story about Linda Wolf
Ethiopian Airlines Magazine: Person to Person with the Hamer Tribe
UCLA Center for Study of Women: Story about TTC and the nonprofit work of Linda Wolf
Women's Radio News,  Riane Eisler interviews Linda Wolf
Elephant Journal: Review of Full Woman by Linda Wolf
Through the Eyes of Women: Brenda Starr interviews Linda Wolf
Wet Magazine: The Making of Wet: Photos by Linda Wolf appeared in Wet Magazine
LA Yoga Magazine
Inside Bainbridge
Professional Photography Magazine: Behold Beauty
TED-x Elliott Bay Women
Women's Rising Radio WRR profiles the distinguished US photographer Linda Wolf
Gaialogue Radio: Stories of Transformation with Artist, Author, Photographer and Entrepreneur Linda Wolf
Celluloid Bainbridge: Full Woman video presentation with Linda Wolf
Compathos TV
TAMLA Pod Cast
Women's Radio
Scot Free
Teach Mama: Raising Girls who Rock
Yosoy Network
Pat Show
Deva Premal & Miten in Concert for Linda Wolf's Teen Talking Circles
Saeedeh Jamshidi KBCS Radio: Linda Wolf Story
Women Rising: Linda Wolf, a Quintessential Feminist
New Dimensions Radio: The Power and Promise of Young Women

Books/Films/Online:

Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Memory Book
Over 150+ vintage photos by Linda Wolf, plus stories and quotes, of alumni such as Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Chris Stainton, Bobby Torres, Leon Russell, Carl Radle, Pamela Polland, Chuck Blackwell, Jim Keltner, and more.

Fanny, the photographs of Linda Wolf 1969-1971
Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century
Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women & Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood
Willin': The Story of Little Feat, photos of Lowell George

Twenty Feet From Stardom Film: Photo of Claudia Lennear
Leon Russell Montage, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour Film
Tulsa Area Music Archives: Interview with Linda Wolf
 

I AM A FULL WOMAN: A montage of photographs of women worldwide to the beautifully haunting chant by Rachel Bagby, Full Woman.

All photographs copyright © 1968-2014 Linda Wolf