Doris Ulmann (1884-1934)
Doris Ulmann was born in 1884 in New York City. She began her photographic career while a student at Columbia University studying psychology and law. As a prominent New York City photographer, Doris Ulmann was best known for her photographs of the Deep South during the 1920s and 1930s. Trained as a pictorialist by Clarence White, Ulmann produced beautifully crafted soft-focus platinum prints.
Her work at the Ethical Culture School inspired an interest in photographing people of all races, cultures, and economic groups. As a result, her photographs include as subjects everyone from William Butler Yeats to the people of southern Appalachia.
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