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Portrait of Doris Ulmann

Portrait of Doris Ulmann SPECIAL FEATURE Leatha Kendrick Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was born and educated in New York City. Trained as a teacher at the school of the Ethical Culture Society, Doris was in Law School at Columbia University, when in 1914 she visited a photography class taught by Clarence White, a famous pictorialist White School of Photography in New York and soon discovered her talent for portraiture and embarked on what was to be her life's work. By the mid-1920s she was in demand as a studio portrait photographer, and, by the end of the decade, she had published three volumes of portraits. Picasso claimed that he was quoting Leonardo da Vinci when he asserted, "the painter always paints himself." Ulmann's portraits reveal at least as much about who she is as they do about the people she photographed. Though Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Thomas Wolfe, Paul Robeson, Albert Einstein, and many other famous people were glad to sit for her, Ulmann was drawn to people on the margins of society. In the late 1920s she began to leave her comfortable Park Avenue apartment more and more regularly, looking for groups of people whose rural way of life she feared was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Portrait of Doris Ulmann

Kendrick, Leatha.
Appalachian Review , Volume 31 (4) – Jan 8, 2003
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SPECIAL FEATURE Leatha Kendrick Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was born and educated in New York City. Trained as a teacher at the school of the Ethical Culture Society, Doris was in Law School at Columbia University, when in 1914 she visited a photography class taught by Clarence White, a famous pictorialist White School of Photography in New York and soon discovered her talent for portraiture and embarked on what was to be her life's work. By the mid-1920s she was in demand as a studio portrait photographer, and, by the end of the decade, she had published three volumes of portraits. Picasso claimed that he was quoting Leonardo da Vinci when he asserted, "the painter always paints himself." Ulmann's portraits reveal at least as much about who she is as they do about the people she photographed. Though Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Thomas Wolfe, Paul Robeson, Albert Einstein, and many other famous people were glad to sit for her, Ulmann was drawn to people on the margins of society. In the late 1920s she began to leave her comfortable Park Avenue apartment more and more regularly, looking for groups of people whose rural way of life she feared was

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