This comprehensive retrospective explores the extensive work of photographer Doris Ulmann, covering her diverse range of subjects and photographic styles. It includes her early pictorialist images, studio portraits of New York's literary and artistic figures, and documentary photographs of rural craftsmen in Appalachia, as well as the African American and Gullah communities in South Carolina and Georgia. Ulmann's work crosses genres, blending pictorialism and documentary photography, and focuses on preserving the American past with modernist elements like form, sharp contrast, and unmanipulated prints. Her unique approach and subject matter make categorizing her work challenging.
