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Doris Ulmann (1884-1934) was an American photographer. She is best known for her photographs of the people of Appalachia that were made between 1928 and 1934. Much of her work is under the control of the Doris Ulmann foundation, at Berea College in Kentucky. Her photographs are also part of many collections including the Smithsonian and the J. Paul Getty Museum. She grew up in New York City, where she graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.


Some of her images can be seen at this web site: http://www.berea.edu/galleryV/DorisUlmannHome.HTML


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Doris Ulmann (1882-1934), was a native of New York City, the daughter of Bernhard and Gertrude (Mass) Ulmann.
Ulmann documented the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain peoples of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands, with a profound respect for her sitters and an ethnographer's eye for culture.
Ulmann, D. "Among the Southern mountaineers: camera portraits of types of character reproduced from photographs recently made in the highlands of the South," The Mentor, v.16 pp.23-32.
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