From 1936 until 1958, over the course of eighty-six covers, some six hundred color photographs and thousands of black-and-white shots, Dahl-Wolfe brought a fresh American look to fashion photography. To a field dominated by affected images of impassive models posed like sculpture, Dahl-Wolfe brought naturalness and impromptu glamour. She supplanted the haughty "European" ideal of the 1930s with an active, approachable vision of the fashionable woman.