Doris Ulmann is a contradictory figure in the history of photography. A wealthy New York photographer, she is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A frail woman, she made numerous trips into the
rugged Appalachian region. A prolific creator, she died before many of her last images could be printed. Considered one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, she disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s.
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. An edited transcript of their discussion and a chronological overview of Ulmann's life are also included in this volume.
Series: In Focus
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