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Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann

Sarah Kate Gillespie

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This is the first complete retrospective of the work of photographer Doris Ulmann, treating the full scope of her production, including her early pictorialist photographs, her studio portrait production, her focus on the rural craftsmen and women of Appalachia and her work on the African American and Gullah communities of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Ulmann created studio portraits in her native New York of literary and artistic celebrities but also traveled to Appalachia, the rural South and the Gullah coastal region to photograph locals and their crafts. Because of her variety of subjects, her work is difficult to categorize, but it has elements of pictorialism and documentary photography. It focuses on preservation of the American past and shows an interest in some of modernism s concerns: a priority on form, sharper tonal contrast and quality of line, and unmanipulated prints.

Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Hardcover

Release: August 01, 2018

ISBN 13: 9781946657084

Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann

Sarah Kate Gillespie

0/5 ( ratings)

This is the first complete retrospective of the work of photographer Doris Ulmann, treating the full scope of her production, including her early pictorialist photographs, her studio portrait production, her focus on the rural craftsmen and women of Appalachia and her work on the African American and Gullah communities of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Ulmann created studio portraits in her native New York of literary and artistic celebrities but also traveled to Appalachia, the rural South and the Gullah coastal region to photograph locals and their crafts. Because of her variety of subjects, her work is difficult to categorize, but it has elements of pictorialism and documentary photography. It focuses on preservation of the American past and shows an interest in some of modernism s concerns: a priority on form, sharper tonal contrast and quality of line, and unmanipulated prints.

Language: English

Pages: 200

Format: Hardcover

Release: August 01, 2018

ISBN 13: 9781946657084

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