Linda Wolf
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Linda Wolf, (born March 17, 1950) is an American-born Photographer and Writer.
She is the author of Speaking and Listening From the Heart (dsistas Press, 2004); co-author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood (New Society Publishers, 1997); and Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century; Stories from a New Generation of Activists (New Society Publishers, 2001).
Wolf lived and studied in France between 1970-1975. She attended the Institute of American Universities, and L'Ecole Experimental Photographic, taught by Jean-Pierre Sudre and Claudine Sudre. Her photographs of women, gypsies, and villagers of the Vaucluse Mountains from these years, the content of which is mainly between documentary photography social photojournalism and portraiture, is housed in museums and private galleries including the Bibliotheque Nationale; Le Musee Het Sterkshof, Belgium; Le Musee Reatu, France; Le Musee Cantini, Marseille.
Wolf was part of the early music scene in Los Angeles as photographer for the first all-girl rock band, Fanny (1969), and the Joe Cocker Mad Dogs and Englishmen Tour (1970). In 1975, she co-founded Women in Photography International. In 1981, she was a representative of the United States in Arles, France at the Rencontres International de la Photographie, and in 1984, she created "The World Welcome Project" sponsored by Eastman Kodak for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
Between 1975-1981, Wolf spent much time at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, founded by Michael Murphy and Dick Price in 1962 as an alternative educational center devoted to the exploration of what Aldous Huxley called "human potential," the world of unrealized human capacities that lies beyond the imagination. This led to a friendship with Fritjof Capra, who inspired her to merge photography and writing.
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Linda Wolf is a founding director of the Daughters Sisters Project(1993), which in 2003 was renamed the Teen Talking Circle Project, a non-profit organizations dedicated to offering young people a space to develop understanding and compassion for themselves and others and promote youth activism.
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