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  Doris Ulmann photographs
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934), was a native of New York City, the daughter of Bernhard and Gertrude (Mass) Ulmann.
Ulmann documented the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain peoples of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands, with a profound respect for her sitters and an ethnographer's eye for culture.
Ulmann, D. "Among the Southern mountaineers: camera portraits of types of character reproduced from photographs recently made in the highlands of the South," The Mentor, v.16 pp.23-32.
libweb.uoregon.edu /speccoll/photo/ulmann   (1641 words)

  
 Niles Remembers Ulmann (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It was a tremendous opportunity for a city woman, a city-bred woman like Doris, to come into these isolated backwoods places and see the highlanders—see them work and play, see them up close in their houses, sit with them, talk with them, philosophize with them, and finally photograph them.
I'm supposed to be a horseman, and Doris was a helpless, city-bred girl who had been on a horse very few times in her life.
Miss Ulmann's illness caught up with her terribly during the summer of 1933 and into the early days of 1934.
www.libweb.uoregon.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /speccoll/photo/ulmann/nilestext.html   (2047 words)

  
 In Focus: Doris Ulmann (Getty Bookstore)
Doris Ulmann is a contradictory figure in the history of photography.
The Getty Museum owns 171 pictures by Ulmann, 55 of which are presented in the Museum's In Focus series.
Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, wrote the extensive accompanying captions and participated, along with William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef, Ron Pen, and Susan Millar Williams, in a 1994 colloquium on Ulmann and her work.
www.getty.edu /bookstore/titles/ulmann.html   (189 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann Photos -About Ulmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Doris Ulmann took thousands of photographs in Appalachia, creating the largest photographic record of the region.
Between 1927 and 1934 Ulmann photographed Appalachia to capture the character of people whom she admired, and feared were disappearing from the American scene.
Most of the images in our Appalachian exhibits were made by Ulmann during the summers of 1933-34.
community.berea.edu /galleryv/Ulmann.HTML   (83 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann vintage photographs for sale
Doris Ulmann was born to a wealthy New York family.
Influenced by the social liberalism of Lewis Hine, one that accepted and acknowledged the inherent worth of all individuals regardless of their socioeconomic background, Ulmann began to photograph people in rural areas such as Appalachia and South Carolina.
Her purpose was not to provide a social commentary, but rather to show a way of life, older crafts, and individual character that America was in the process of losing.
www.leegallery.com /ulmann.html   (203 words)

  
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Doris Ulmann was born in 1882 in New York City.
Though Doris Ulmann generally signed her work on the mount au recto in pencil, some of the photogravures are unsigned.
Select photographs by Doris Ulmann are available at A Gallery for Fine Photography.
www.agallery.com /Pages/photographers/ulmann.html   (202 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann (1882 - 1934) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Doris Ulmann was born in the New York City but devoted her career in photography to depicting the rural culture of the southeastern United States, particularly the Appalachian Mountains.
Doris Ulmann - Black Mother and Daughter c.
Doris Lee - Cherries in the Sun (Siesta) c.
wwar.com /masters/u/ulmann-doris.html   (383 words)

  
 Observer Newspaper - Scene
Ulmann traveled through Appalachia and the Deep South for a change of scene and subject.
Ulmann worked mostly in portraits, which held a special fascination for her.
Ulmann's photos highlight the strength and simplicity of a rural life and a close community.
www.nd.edu /~observer/02052003/Scene/3.html   (1199 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann Online
Doris Ulmann in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Doris Ulmann at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Corn Shocks and Sky
All images and text on this Doris Ulmann page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/ulmann_doris.html   (172 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is best known for her photographs of the people of Appalachia that were made between 1928 and 1934.
Much of her work is under the control of the Doris Ulmann foundation, at Berea College in Kentucky.
The folk singer and composer John Jacob Niles took four trips to Appalachia as an assistant to Ulmann, during which time he collected and documented many traditional songs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doris_Ulmann   (148 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann (Getty Museum)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A New Yorker by birth, Doris Ulmann preserved the rural cultures of the southeastern United States through her photographs.
Ulmann's equipment was somewhat cumbersome and old-fashioned for her time.
She most often used a 6½ x 8½ inch, tripod-mounted view camera, although the lightweight, hand-held camera was more prevalent, and she produced soft-focus platinum prints.
www.getty.edu /art/collections/bio/a1603-1.html   (164 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann Photo Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The bulk of Ulmann's photographs are housed at the University of Oregon.
The Ulmann photographs at UK are mostly from John Jacob Niles's collection.
Most of Doris Ulmann's Appalachian images are in the archives of the Doris Ulmann Foundation, headquartered in the Berea College Art Department.
www.leathakendrick.com /archives.htm   (111 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Many of Doris Ulmann's photographs may be found on the web.
Doris Ulmann, a noted New York photographer, spent the last several years of her life traveling through the southern Appalachian mountains in search of people whose way of life moved or intrigued her.
Through Ulmann's photographs and excerpts from her correspondence, archival film, interviews with historians, Dr. Melisssa McEuen, Dr. Ron Pen, Loyal Jones, and David Featherston, as well as individuals photographed by Ulmann, this documentary explores the life and work of one of America's most important and prolific photographers.
leathakendrick.com /ulmann.htm   (281 words)

  
 Bauman Rare Books: Your Antiquarian Book Questions Answered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Signed limited first edition, number 93 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin.
Ulmann was a wealthy, educated woman who had studied with Clarence White and worked as a portraitist before focusing on American rural life… Ulmann’s soft-focus photos—rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here—straddle Pictorialism and Modernism even as they appear to dissolve into memory” (Roth,
Few copies of this deluxe edition had been distributed at the time of Ulmann’s death in 1934; most were donated by her heirs to the Tuskegee Institute to be sold for that school’s benefit.
www.baumanrarebooks.com /asp/bookDetailsfromsearch.asp?ItemID=55397   (319 words)

  
 Peterkin, Julia and Doris Ulmann., Roll, Jordan, Roll.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
She wrote, with realism and dignity, plantation stories and stories of the Gullah African American tenant farmers of the Sea Islands and coastal regions.
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was a well-respected photographer of the period who specialized in portraying the people of the "Southern Highlands" Appalachia and the coastal fls Peterkin wrote about.
In Focus: Doris Ulmann, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
www.polybiblio.com /pjbooks/8980.html   (166 words)

  
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Doris Ulmann was born in New York City.
This is a collection of twenty-three Doris Ulmann photographs of Appalachian subjects.
Older man wearing hat and overalls standing at open door of cabin with young, barefoot boy in overalls and young barefoot girl.
www.kyvl.org /kentuckiana/rawsgml/ktu/pa4.sgm   (456 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Doris Ulmann - Rights and Restrictions Information (Prints and Photographs Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Doris Ulmann's photographs are in the public domain.
PH - Ulmann (D.), no. 155 (AA size), (a portrait of Brander Matthews) uses the following credit line: Gift of Paul Roth and Cyntia Karnes, in honor of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov /rr/print/res/167_ulma.html   (176 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In Focus: Doris Ulmann: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (In Focus): Books: Doris Ulmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s.
She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South.
Naef, Ron Pen, and Susan Millar Williams, in a colloquium on Ulmann and her work.
www.amazon.com /Focus-Doris-Ulmann-Photographs-Museum/dp/0892363738   (716 words)

  
 The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann:0813121752:Jacobs, Philip Walker:eCampus.com
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet there has never been a biography of this fascinating, gifted artist.
Born into a New York Jewish family with a tradition of service, Ulmann sought to portray and document individuals from various types of groups that she feared would vanish from American life.
In the last eighteen years of her life, Ulmann created over 10,000 photographs and illustrated five books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll and Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands.
www.ecampus.com /book/0813121752   (220 words)

  
 Ulmann Photograph Collection
For this reason, the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarely been touched by life."
This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images from the Ulmann Photograph Collection.
The images were scanned prior to the development of local standards and information provided about each image is incomplete and sometimes inaccurate.
libweb.uoregon.edu /catdept/digcol/ulmann   (268 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann Photograph Exhibit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Appalachia Through the Eyes of Doris Ulmann: A Photograph Exhibit
Doris Ulmann is perhaps the best known photographer to capture Appalachia on film.
Doris Ulmann's Appalachian images are under the control of the Doris Ulmann Foundation, headquartered in the Berea College Art Department.
community.berea.edu /galleryv/DorisUlmannHome.HTML   (61 words)

  
 Doris Ulmann, American Portraits. - (ULMANN, D.) FEATHERSTONE, DAVID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
(ULMANN, D.) FEATHERSTONE, DAVID Doris Ulmann, American Portraits.
An excellent and beautifully reproduced survey of this uncommon survey of photography of Doris Ulmann.
Offered by: Pawprint Books - Book number: 6438 WM Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook.
www.antiqbook.com /boox/paw/6438_WM.shtml   (72 words)

  
 Women Photographers -Gallery Highlights- Archive 6 @ wipi.org
The largest exhibit of the photographs of Doris Ulmann since 1946 opened February 10 at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, KY. The exhibit, "Doris Ulmann's Passionate Portraits of America," coincides with publishing of the first-ever full biography of Ulmann, a gifted artist who was one of the foremost photographers of the early twentieth century.
Photographer Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) worked from 1917 until days before her death in August 1934, producing images of authors and editors, doctors and scientists, rural African Americans, mountain Appalachians and Indians.
Most of the vintage artworks are from the collection of Gordon and Lyn Layton and one belongs to Martha Bennett Stiles, author and granddaughter of the noted author John Bennett, whose portrait by Ulmann is included in the exhibit.
www.womeninphotography.org /archive06-Apr01/gallery/f2/gallery.html   (1191 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Doris Ulmann : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Find in a Library: Doris Ulmann : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Doris Ulmann : photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/top3mset/03220dbbc11b4ab8a19afeb4da09e526.html   (51 words)

  
 Your Portfolio | Art History & Archaeology Database | Columbia University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ulmann, Doris; Baptism Scene, South Carolina; American; 1929-30; New York: N-Y Historical Society; 20.3 x 15.2cm; [CU: AH_0203_038_6]
Ulmann, Doris; Foot Washing, South Carolina; American; 1929-30; New York: N-Y Historical Society; 19.7 x 14.9cm; [CU: AH_0203_038_7]
Ulmann, Doris; Nun with Girl, New Orleans; American; 1931; New York: N-Y Historical Society; platinum print; 19.7 x 14.9cm; [CU: AH_0203_038_8]
www.mcah.columbia.edu /dbcourses/publicportfolio.cgi?view=1507   (77 words)

  
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Despite her work with the upper echelon of New York, her interest in the individual citizen was not lost.
The accession consists of 16 original, signed portraits by Doris Ulmann of mountain people in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
The accession consists of 32 original, signed portraits by Doris Ulmann of mountain people in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
www.kyvl.org /kentuckiana/rawsgml/kuk/kukavead/ulmann.sgm   (2709 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Doris Ulmann": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Julia and photographer Doris Ulmann, herfriend and collaborator on Roll, Jordan, Roll.
number of Jewish American women photographers seem to have a strong social conscience-whether they were born to wealth as were DORIS ULMANN and DIANE ARBUS, or in working- class neighborhoods, as were Helen Levitt and Rebecca Lepkoff, or come from abroad, as...
PICTURING AMERICAN TYPES: DORIS ULMANN AMONG THE GULLAHS The Negroes hold fast to the old ways and beliefs acquired by their forefathers through years of...
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 AmSouth: View Record
Abstract: The Doris Ulmann Photographic Collection, 1915-1925 consists of three different photographic collections totaling 202 unique items received by the library in 1970, 1978, and 1996 respectively.
Doris Ulmann, born in New York City in 1882, was the daughter of wealthy German immigrants.
In 1900 she enrolled in New York's Ethical Culture School in New York and her photographic work became widely respected.
www.americansouth.org /viewrecord.php?id=2538   (146 words)

  
 DORIS ULMANN Fine Art Artist: Artists' art auction database + Biography
More details, updated results and all prices at art auction for DORIS ULMANN, biography, classifieds and marketplace
Portraits of an elderly Woman in a white Head Scarf
Check all DORIS ULMANN art market information since 1987
www.artistsearch.com /artists/ULMANN_DORIS.htm   (155 words)

  
 Ullmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alec Ulmann and Mary Ulmann, creators of the first auto race at Sebring Raceway
Benjamin Ulmann, Alsatian historical painter, see Jewish Encyclopedia
Albert Conrad Ullman, a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented the 2nd Congressional District of Oregon from 1957 to 1981
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ullmann   (487 words)

  
 inIVA: person - Doris Ulmann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Doris Ulmann is best known for her portrait photography and her documentation of rural life of the poor in Applachia and the American Deep South.
Ulmann's aesthetic reflects an oscillation between love of fl folk culture and a desire to render her subjects in a Modern, hence more neutral form.
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www.iniva.org /archive/person/488   (110 words)

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