Doris Ulmann

Photographs

The Darkness and the Light

John Jacob Niles

" ... 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].

The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann

David Featherstone

For nearly a decade before she died in 1934, Doris Ulmann spent every summer photographing people in remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains. With over eighty duotone plates, this book examines in depth this photographer's career. In his essay that brings to light new biographical information, David Featherstone establishes a critical context in which to view Doris Ulmann's achievement. Many of the reproductions are from the last summer of her work and have not been published before--Cover.

Doris Ulmann

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