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Christopher Lewis, Preacher, Wooton, Kentucky
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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- 1928–1934
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 35fceaea-367a-4fc5-a89c-28b7cfd1af50
Wooton Fireside Industries, established to promote such mountain crafts as furniture making, woodcarving, and weaving, was begun in the 1920s, about the time the John C. Campbell Folk School was founded near Brasstown, North Carolina. Allen Eaton (1878-1962), who was attempting to document the history of the handicraft revival, as well as to describe in detail these regional practices in his 1937 book *Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands* ([https://primo.getty.edu](https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=GETTY_ALMA21140498420001551&context=L&vid=GRI&lang=en_US&search_scope=COMBINED&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=all_gri&query=any,contains,allen%20eaton&offset=0)), may have sent Doris Ulmann to Wooton to record the craftspeople gathered there. Preacher Lewis, however, clearly captured Ulmann's attention as an important character in the community. She photographed him in a large, elaborate handmade chair with and without his jacket, eyeglasses, and wife. In this picture the preacher is shown alone clutching his Bible to his chest, appearing somewhat anxious but also spiritual. Judith Keller. *Doris Ulmann*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996), 76. ©1996, J. Paul Getty Trust.
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