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accession number: 1987.129
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South Carolina, 1930. Doris Ulmann (American, 1882–1934). Platinum print; image: 20.3 x 15.3 cm (8 x 6 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1987.129
title: South Carolina
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creation date: 1930
creation date earliest: 1930
creation date latest: 1930
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: platinum print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Doris Ulmann (American, 1882–1934) - artist
Doris Ulmann American, 1882-1934
Doris Ulmann, born into a wealthy family in New York City, is known primarily for her sensitive photographs documenting the rural people of Appalachia and the South in the 1920s-30s. She attended the Ethical Culture School and Columbia University Teacher's College (1907), where she studied psychology, law, and photography and was a student of Clarence H. White. A great admirer of White, she later studied at his School of Photography (1914) and joined his organization, the Pictorial Photographers of America (1918).
Interested in portraiture, Ulmann began to photograph members of the medical and arts communities in New York in 1918. For these and later portraits, she used a large-format view camera (6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches) with a soft-focus lens. In the mid-1920s Ulmann began traveling to rural areas to photograph American types and traditional ways of life she believed would soon disappear. She photographed the Dunkard, Mennonite, and Shaker settlements in Virginia, New York, Pennsylvania, and New England, and in 1927, accompanied by Kentucky-born folk singer John Jacob Niles, undertook her well-known series of portraits of the rural people of Appalachia, a project she continued until her death.
From 1929-30 Ulmann worked with writer Julia Peterkin on a study of the Gullah people of South Carolina, which resulted in the book Roll, Jordan, Roll (1933). At the time of her death, Ulmann was involved in a collaborative project with Allen Henderson Eaton, taking photographs in Appalachia for his book Handicrafts of the Highlands (1937). M.M.
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measurements: Image: 20.3 x 15.3 cm (8 x 6 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Doris Ulmann [signed]"; in red pencil on verso: "475"; in pencil: "18 [circled]"; "25GR"; "31"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1987
opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
title: From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression
opening date: 2017-08-13T04:00:00
From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1987." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (1988): 30-71.
page number: p. 67, no. 96
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160017
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 362
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