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The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann
Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet until now 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 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. Inspired by the paintings of the European old masters and by the photographs of Hill and Adamson and Clarence White, Ulmann produced unique and substantial portrait s...
Doris Ulmann
Approximately fifty-five pictures by the American artist Doris Ulmann are reproduced in this volume, another in the J. Paul Getty Museum's In Focus series on photographers. Ulmann (1882-1954) is best known for her portraits of the people of the rural South. Commentary on the pictures is provided by Judith Keller, Associate Curator of the Museum's Department of Photographs. An edited transcript of a colloquium on Ulmann's work includes the informed contributions of Ms. Keller as well as William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef, Ron Pen, and Susan Williams. A chronology of significant events in the artist's life is also provided.
Roll Jordan, Roll
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Doris Ulmann
For nearly a decade before she died in 1934, Doris Ulmann spent every summer photographing people in remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains. With over eighty duotone plates, this book examines in depth this photographer's career. In his essay that brings to light new biographical information, David Featherstone establishes a critical context in which to view Doris Ulmann's achievement. Many of the reproductions are from the last summer of her work and have not been published before--Cover.
A New Heartland
Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems of modernity? And how have they imbued the rural-traditionally viewed as a locus for conservatism-with a progressive political valence? Touching on such diverse subjects as eugenics, reproductive rights, advertising, the economy of literary prizes, and the role of the camera, A New Heartland demonstrates the importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of modernism/modernity; it also as...
The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann
" ... These eloquent photographs of our vanishing American peasantry, ridiculed by the middle class as hillbillies, disclose a character that is altogether humbling ... To look at the lined, weathered faces of Christopher Lewis, Ella Webster, and Mrs. Bird Patten is to be reminded of the humanity and rooted communal life of these Southern Americans who are counted now simply as bureaucratic statistics in the poverty program. The recovery of Doris Ulmann's portraiture is typical of Jargon's cultural husbandry."[4].
I Wonder as I Wander
Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892--1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, "Go 'Way from My Window," basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe." In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician's character and care...
Vernacular Modernism
Early years -- In the studio and out -- Photographing African Americans and roll, Jordan, roll -- The Southern highlands -- Checklist of the exhibition.
Seeing America
“This vibrant and penetrating study. . . . opens a window on American culture between the world wars.” —Publishers Weekly Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective streng...
