DORIS ULMANN/CULTURAL DOCUMENTS 1917-1934
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Authors
McPherson, Dian
Issue Date
1983
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
During Ulmann's career, her interests shifted as she came to terms with her personal search for form and format. She evolved from the pictorialist tradition of Julia Margaret Cameron toward the documentary ethos of Dorothea Lange. Ulmann represents a turning point for women in photography, from the comfortable ethereal world of romanticism to one of elemental involvement with social condition and humanism.
Doris Ulmann did not revolutionize photographic history, but her place in art history forms a significant substructure that supports the changing role of women in photography in this period. In her work we see a gradually changing frame of reference for image-making, not a radical announcement of a totally new format. Her life was a representation of the available alternatives for women in photography and a model for provocative involvement and artistic freedom.