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The Encyclopedia of Photography’s Art and History

    Roll, Jordan, Roll

    • Doris Ulmann (1882-1934)

    African American life and culture in rural South Carolina during an era of social and cultural transition.

    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

    Roll, Jordan, Roll

    • Doris Ulmann (1882-1934)

    African American life and culture in rural South Carolina during an era of social and cultural transition.

    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    The Chain Gang, South Carolina, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Portrait of Miss Katy, South Carolina, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.
    Untitled, 1929-31. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Image courtesy of MoMA.

    Books

    The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann

    (The University Press of Kentucky, 2021)

    Vernacular Modernism: The Photography of Doris Ulmann

    (Georgia Museum of Art, 2018)

    In Focus: Doris Ulmann

    (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996)

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