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[Black Man in Flat Boat, Holding Shotgun]
Creator
Doris UlmannAmerican Photographer · 1882–1934
All works by this person →A New Yorker by birth, Doris Ulmann preserved the rural cultures of the southeastern United States through her photographs. She worked particularly in the "Southern Highlands" of the Appalachian Mountains, creating portraits of the residents. In 1933, she contributed photographs to *Roll, Jordan, Roll*, a book by novelist Julia Peterkin about the vanishing black culture, known as Gullah, of the So
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- 1929–1930
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 16932396-5414-4858-a463-763d0a54c567
Portrait of a black man sitting at the end of a flatboat, with both his face and bust turned at a three quarter angle to the right. He is wearing a dark hat and is holding a shotgun. A wooden dock is visible in the background, on the upper right corner of the photograph.
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