The Life And Photography Of Doris Ulmann

Author : Philip Walker Jacobs
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813184814

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The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann by Philip Walker Jacobs Pdf

Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet until now there has never been a biography of this fascinating, gifted artist. Born into a New York Jewish family with a tradition of service, Ulmann sought to portray and document individuals from various groups that she feared would vanish from American life. In the last eighteen years of her life, Ulmann created over 10,000 photographs and illustrated five books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll and Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Inspired by the paintings of the European old masters and by the photographs of Hill and Adamson and Clarence White, Ulmann produced unique and substantial portrait studies. Working in her Park Avenue studio and traveling throughout the east coast, Appalachia, and the deep South, she carefully studied and photographed the faces of urban intellectuals as well as rural peoples. Her subjects included Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, African American basket weavers from South Carolina, and Kentucky mountain musicians. Relying on newly discovered letters, documents, and photographs—many published here for the first time—Philip Jacobs's richly illustrated biography secures Ulmann's rightful place in the history of American photography.

Author : Doris Ulmann,J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Photograph collections
ISBN : 0892363738

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Doris Ulmann by Doris Ulmann,J. Paul Getty Museum Pdf

Approximately fifty-five pictures by the American artist Doris Ulmann are reproduced in this volume, another in the J. Paul Getty Museum's In Focus series on photographers. Ulmann (1882-1954) is best known for her portraits of the people of the rural South. Commentary on the pictures is provided by Judith Keller, Associate Curator of the Museum's Department of Photographs. An edited transcript of a colloquium on Ulmann's work includes the informed contributions of Ms. Keller as well as William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef, Ron Pen, and Susan Williams. A chronology of significant events in the artist's life is also provided.

Author : Sarah Kate Gillespie
Publisher : University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSD:31822044528636

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Vernacular Modernism by Sarah Kate Gillespie Pdf

Early years -- In the studio and out -- Photographing African Americans and roll, Jordan, roll -- The Southern highlands -- Checklist of the exhibition.

Author : Mrs Julia (Mood) Peterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:772978394

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Roll Jordan, Roll by Mrs Julia (Mood) Peterson Pdf

Author : Doris Ulmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015007213898

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The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann by Doris Ulmann Pdf

" ... These eloquent photographs of our vanishing American peasantry, ridiculed by the middle class as hillbillies, disclose a character that is altogether humbling ... To look at the lined, weathered faces of Christopher Lewis, Ella Webster, and Mrs. Bird Patten is to be reminded of the humanity and rooted communal life of these Southern Americans who are counted now simply as bureaucratic statistics in the poverty program. The recovery of Doris Ulmann's portraiture is typical of Jargon's cultural husbandry."[4].

Author : Janet Galligani Casey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199713340

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A New Heartland by Janet Galligani Casey Pdf

Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems of modernity? And how have they imbued the rural-traditionally viewed as a locus for conservatism-with a progressive political valence? Touching on such diverse subjects as eugenics, reproductive rights, advertising, the economy of literary prizes, and the role of the camera, A New Heartland demonstrates the importance of rurality to the imaginative construction of modernism/modernity; it also asserts that women, as objects of scrutiny as well as agents of critique, had a special stake in that relation. Casey traces the ideals informing America's conception of the rural across a wide field of representational domains, including social theory, periodical literature, cultural criticism, photography, and, most especially, women's rural fiction ("low" as well as "high"). Her argument is informed by archival research, most crucially through a careful analysis of The Farmer's Wife, the single nationally distributed farm journal for women and a little known repository of rural American attitudes. Through this broad scope, A New Heartland articulates an alternative mode of modernism by challenging orthodox ideas about gender and geography in twentieth-century America.

Author : Doris Ulmann,Judith Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : UOM:39015051604547

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Doris Ulmann by Doris Ulmann,Judith Keller Pdf

Author : Ron Pen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813139814

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I Wonder as I Wander by Ron Pen Pdf

Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892--1980) is considered to be one of our nation's most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, "Go 'Way from My Window," basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe." In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician's character and career. Using Niles's own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as "Pretty Polly" and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair." Niles's preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of "Dean of American Balladeers," and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles's dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.

Author : Bonnie Yochelson,Kathleen A. Erwin
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015038024157

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Pictorialism Into Modernism by Bonnie Yochelson,Kathleen A. Erwin Pdf

This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the photographic work and teaching of Clarence H. White and his students, who were New York's vanguard art photographers in the first half of this century. The incisive texts, written by two White scholars, examine the social context of White's ideologies, and arts and crafts principles. These beautifully reproduced images reveal the photographic work of White and his students, which is based on the aesthetic principles that formed the foundations of modernism.

Author : Carol Kort,Liz Sonneborn
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Art, American
ISBN : 9781438107912

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A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts by Carol Kort,Liz Sonneborn Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of American women of achievement in the field of visual arts, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author : Melissa A. McEuen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780813183114

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Seeing America by Melissa A. McEuen Pdf

“This vibrant and penetrating study. . . . opens a window on American culture between the world wars.” —Publishers Weekly Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, who applied avant-garde advertising techniques in her exploration of the human condition; and Berenice Abbott, a devoted observer of the continuous motion and chaotic energy that characterized the modern cityscape. Combining feminist biography with analysis of visual texts, McEuen considers the various prisms though which each woman saw and revealed America. Winner of the 1999 Emily Toth Award for the best feminist study of popular culture given by the Women’s Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. “A rich resource for anyone interested in the history of photography, women’s history, and American history in general.” —Bloomsbury Review “A valiant, well-researched effort to bridge the history of visual culture with American social and political history.” —Journal of American History “The best books always leave their audience wanting more. That is certainly true of this gem of a work.” —Library Journal (starred review).

Author : Lynne Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1823 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781135205362

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set by Lynne Warren Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography explores the vast international scope of twentieth-century photography and explains that history with a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary manner. This unique approach covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. This Encyclopedia presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography. To bring this history alive for the reader, the set is illustrated in black and white throughout, and each volume contains a color plate section. A useful glossary of terms is also included.

Author : Nell Dorr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022404425

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In a blue moon by Nell Dorr Pdf

Author : Ron Pen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813125985

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I Wonder as I Wander by Ron Pen Pdf

Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) is considered to be one of our nation’s most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, “Go ’Way from My Window,” basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician’s character and career. Using Niles’s own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as “Pretty Polly” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Niles’s preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of “Dean of American Balladeers,” and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles’s dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.

Author : Edward Steichen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0671554115

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The family of man by Edward Steichen Pdf