Bernard Pierre Wolff

His photographs of monumental sculpture were used as cover artwork for music by Joy Division in 1980. All of his work is held by the Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris, which exhibited it in 2017.

From 1955 to 1958 Wolff worked at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris as assistant to its director, Henri Langlois. He moved to New York City in the late 1950s and worked as art director at the Foreign Policy Association for 18 years. From 1974, for more than four years, he made street photographs in New York City. From the mid 1970s he worked as a professional photographer for various United Nations organisations, travelling and photographing people. Designers Peter Saville and Martyn Atkins used Wolff's 1978 photographs of monumental sculpture in the Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno in Genoa, Italy as cover artwork for music releases by Joy Division in 1980. His photograph of the Appiani family tomb was used for the album Closer and his photograph of the Ribaudo family tomb was used on the 12" version of the single "Love Will Tear Us Apart".

• Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York City, 1976 • Bernard Pierre Wolff – Photographies, 1971–1984, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, 2017. Curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso.

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The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that bernard Pierre Wolff is recorded as a citizen of France. Institutional cataloguing adds that bernard Pierre Wolff is recorded with the gender male. The register further records that bernard Pierre Wolff was born on 26 November 1930.