Doris Ulmann

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Doris Ulmann: Self-Portrait (around 1910)
Doris Ulmann: Two Men at Work (around 1916 to 1925)

Doris Ulmann (born May 29, 1882 in New York ; † August 28, 1934 there ) was an American photographer .

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Ulmann was born in New York as the daughter of the German immigrant and wool manufacturer Bernhard Ulmann and a descendant of the German Bernhard Ber Ullmann . She completed from 1900 to 1903 teacher training with the photographer Lewis Wickes Hine at the Ethical Culture School and then studied psychology and law at Columbia University . There she also took a photography course with Clarence Hudson White . Around 1915 she married the doctor and amateur photographer Charles H. Jaeger, whose last name she used ten years later until her divorce. In 1918 she took photographs professionally and her early works included portraits of prominent intellectuals, artists and writers: William Butler Yeats , John Dewey , Max Eastman , Sinclair Lewis , Joseph Wood Krutch , Anna Pavlova , Martha Graham , Paul Robeson and Lillian Gish . In the magazines The Bookman (New York City) and Vanity Fair her portraits of were Ansel Adams , Albert Einstein , Martha Graham, Edna St. Vincent Millay , José Clemente Orozco and Thornton Wilder published. She was interested in preserving rapidly changing and even disappearing cultures and traveled extensively to South Carolina , Kentucky , Tennessee , Louisiana, and North Carolina for her portraits . From 1927 she was accompanied on her travels by the folklorist John Jacob Niles , who collected ballads while she was taking photos. In 1932 she began a series of photos for the book "Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands" by Allen Hendershott Eaton (1878–1962). She fell ill while working in the mountains of North Carolina in the summer of 1934 and died shortly after returning to New York. After her death, the foundation she founded at Berea College , Kentucky took custody of her pictures. Much of her images are in the collections of the University of Oregon Libraries : 2,739 gelatin silver glass plate negatives, 304 matt original prints, and 79 albums. Berea College is home to a collection of over 3100 images, mainly from the Appalachian and Berea regions. Additional collections are located at the University of Kentucky , the North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona at Tucson and the New York Historical Society . Her photographs are also part of many museum collections, including the Smithsonian and the J. Paul Getty Museum . In 2018, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia organized a comprehensive retrospective of her work and published the largest book on her work to date.

Publications (selection)

  • Ulmann, Doris: The faculty of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University in the City of New York. New York, Hoeber, 1919
  • Ulmann, Doris: A portrait gallery of American editors. New York, WE Rudge, 1925
  • Ulmann, Doris et al .: Myth, memory and imagination: universal themes in the life and culture of the South: selections from the collection of Julia J. Norrell. McKissick Museum. Columbia, SC, McKissick Museum University of South Carolina, 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Ulmann, Doris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulmann Jaeger, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1934
Place of death New York City