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[Grace Combs, Hindman, 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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- about 1928–1934
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- b76a997b-0151-423b-9ce5-a0145a434ba9
"They all want to go and dress up," Doris Ulmann said of the subjects she preferred to photograph in their day-to-day clothing and habitat. Grace Combs appears to be one of those sitters who wanted to be shown in stylish pose and costume, but she may also have been one of a number of Hindman Settlement School students Ulmann chose to portray for their youthful attractiveness and desire to be as current as their meager resources would allow. The University of Oregon proof-print albums reveal that at this session Ulmann made quite a few pictures of Combs, with and without her gloves and hat, seated, and in close up, all capturing her naturally seductive gaze. Combs was no doubt related to the first graduate of Hindman, Josiah H. Combs, who, in the mid-1920s, completed a dissertation for the Sorbonne on folk songs of the middle United States. Judith Keller. *Doris Ulmann*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996), 72. ©1996, J. Paul Getty Trust.
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