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Harbor Scene, Probably Gloucester, Massachusetts
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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- 1916–1925
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 98acd80a-1c37-4f65-b605-daf1b8ee60f8
Doris Ulmann attended the Ethical Culture School in New York before beginning the study of psychology at Columbia University in 1907. She also took classes in photography with Clarence H. White (1871-1925) in the art department at Columbia Teachers College (see [87.XM.89.156](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62506/doris-ulmann-clarence-h-white-and-two-students-american-1915/)). White, a one-time colleague of Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and a founding member of the Photo-Secession, taught photography in the company of the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Max Weber. Dow, a printmaker who had earlier been an assistant curator of Japanese prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, promoted the Eastern principles of creating in two dimensions, accenting the abstract, graphic qualities of any composition. That sensibility is evident in Ulmann’s *Harbor Scene*. White founded two schools of his own: one at a summer home on Georgetown Island, Maine, the other in New York. It is believed that Ulmann participated in both. She probably met Dr. Charles Jaeger (1875-1942), an amateur photographer who later became her husband, through White's classes; the two of them were active members of White's Pictorial Photographers of America. This view and others in the Getty collection (see [87.XM.89.35](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62319/doris-ulmann-still-life-with-vines-and-shadows-possibly-georgetown-island-maine-american-1925-1934/) and [84.XP.704.2](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62279/doris-ulmann-barn-interior-probably-new-england-american-1920/)) may have been obtained during that group's outings from New York or near White's Maine school. Judith Keller. *Doris Ulmann*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996), 12. ©1996, J. Paul Getty Trust.
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