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[edit] Is "Art Wolfe" a pseudonymn?

What's in a name?

A lot of actors use pseudonymns. If you want to become famous or start a successful restaurant, it helps to have an unusual name people will remember. So, I wonder if "Art Wolfe" is this photographer's real name.

I have another reason for questioning the name "Art Wolfe." I shoot nature photography. In the late 1980s, I wanted to create a pseudonymn that sounded artsy and woodsy. The name I came up with was "Art Wolf." Shortly afterward I discovered this name was all ready in use by this famous nature photographer.

So, I am left to wonder if he came up with "Art Wolfe" the same way I came up with "Art Wolf" or if his name really is "Art Wolfe." It seems too much of a coincidence to me that a famous nature photographer would have the name "Art Wolfe." Then again, I would never have thought "Wolfgang Puck" was a real name, but it is.

I wonder if I'm the only one was taken aback when they first heard the famous cook's name. I said to myself surely this is a name someone created to be remembered, and not forgotten. But "no" Wolfgang was adopted by Mr. Puck. I just have to say, it is a good thing Wolfgang was not adopted by Peter Bang of "Bang & Olufsen" fame (Peter Bang, Svend Olufsen).

--Michael D. Wolok