The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
South Carolina
1930
(American, 1882–1934)
Image: 20.3 x 15.3 cm (8 x 6 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1987.129
Location: not on view
Description
Ulmann had the luxury of photographing for personal pleasure rather than for the need to earn money, and thus could choose her own subjects. She focused on communities where modern, industrialized life had not yet left its mark. In the 1920s and 1930s, she photographed Mennonite and Shaker communities in the Northeast, rural Appalachian populations, and African Americans living in the South Carolina coastal plain. Trained as a fine art photographer in the Pictorialist style, she retained its affection for soft focus and platinum prints, while most of her colleagues shifted to modernism’s preference for sharp focus and gelatin silver prints.- Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1987." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (1988): 30-71. p. 67, no. 96 25160017Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 362
- From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
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