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"Aunt John," Ninety-Four Years Old
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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- 1925–1934
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c500f803-04d8-4226-bdba-c4dc7c1f3d29
Half length sitting portrait of an old woman. Her bust is almost in profile while her head turns at a three quarter angle to the right. She is wearing a checkered bonnet and a patterned dress. Her hands are resting on her lap, on top of a folder newspaper.
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