Remembering Doris Ulmann, Pictorialist Photographer

May 29, 2015 /Photography News/ Born 133 years ago today, on 29 May 1882, in New York, Doris Ulmann was was an American photographer best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians such as Jean Ritchie's family. Southern mountaineer, circa 1928, Doris Ulmann, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Warren and Margot Coville collection Ulmann began her photography career in 1918, as a portraitist. Trained as a pictorialist by ...