Download or read book The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... 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].
Download or read book The Life and Photography of Doris Ulmann written by Philip Walker Jacobs and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) was one of the foremost photographers of the twentieth century, yet until now there has never been a biography of this fascinating, gifted artist. Born into a New York Jewish family with a tradition of service, Ulmann sought to portray and document individuals from various groups that she feared would vanish from American life. In the last eighteen years of her life, Ulmann created over 10,000 photographs and illustrated five books, including Roll, Jordan, Roll and Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Inspired by the paintings of the European old masters and by the photographs of Hill and Adamson and Clarence White, Ulmann produced unique and substantial portrait studies. Working in her Park Avenue studio and traveling throughout the east coast, Appalachia, and the deep South, she carefully studied and photographed the faces of urban intellectuals as well as rural peoples. Her subjects included Albert Einstein, Robert Frost, African American basket weavers from South Carolina, and Kentucky mountain musicians. Relying on newly discovered letters, documents, and photographs—many published here for the first time—Philip Jacobs's richly illustrated biography secures Ulmann's rightful place in the history of American photography.
Download or read book Roll Jordan Roll written by Mrs Julia (Mood) Peterson and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doris Ulmann written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doris Ulmann written by David Featherstone and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Doris Ulmann written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doris Ulmann written by Doris Ulmann and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately fifty-five pictures by the American artist Doris Ulmann are reproduced in this volume, another in the J. Paul Getty Museum's In Focus series on photographers. Ulmann (1882-1954) is best known for her portraits of the people of the rural South. Commentary on the pictures is provided by Judith Keller, Associate Curator of the Museum's Department of Photographs. An edited transcript of a colloquium on Ulmann's work includes the informed contributions of Ms. Keller as well as William Clift, David Featherstone, Charles Hagen, Weston Naef, Ron Pen, and Susan Williams. A chronology of significant events in the artist's life is also provided.
Download or read book Doris Ulmann written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Wonder as I Wander written by Ron Pen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) is considered to be one of our nation’s most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, “Go ’Way from My Window,” basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician’s character and career. Using Niles’s own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as “Pretty Polly” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Niles’s preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of “Dean of American Balladeers,” and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles’s dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.
Download or read book Seeing America written by Melissa A. McEuen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This vibrant and penetrating study. . . . opens a window on American culture between the world wars.” —Publishers Weekly Seeing America explores the camera work of five women who directed their visions toward influencing social policy and cultural theory. Taken together, they visually articulated the essential ideas occupying the American consciousness in the years between the world wars. Melissa McEuen examines the work of Doris Ulmann, who made portraits of celebrated artists in urban areas and lesser-known craftspeople in rural places; Dorothea Lange, who magnified human dignity in the midst of poverty and unemployment; Marion Post Wolcott, a steadfast believer in collective strength as the antidote to social ills and the best defense against future challenges; Margaret Bourke-White, who applied avant-garde advertising techniques in her exploration of the human condition; and Berenice Abbott, a devoted observer of the continuous motion and chaotic energy that characterized the modern cityscape. Combining feminist biography with analysis of visual texts, McEuen considers the various prisms though which each woman saw and revealed America. Winner of the 1999 Emily Toth Award for the best feminist study of popular culture given by the Women’s Caucus of the Popular Culture Association. “A rich resource for anyone interested in the history of photography, women’s history, and American history in general.” —Bloomsbury Review “A valiant, well-researched effort to bridge the history of visual culture with American social and political history.” —Journal of American History “The best books always leave their audience wanting more. That is certainly true of this gem of a work.” —Library Journal (starred review).
Download or read book Pictorialism Into Modernism written by Bonnie Yochelson and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first comprehensive examination of the photographic work and teaching of Clarence H. White and his students, who were New York's vanguard art photographers in the first half of this century. The incisive texts, written by two White scholars, examine the social context of White's ideologies, and arts and crafts principles. These beautifully reproduced images reveal the photographic work of White and his students, which is based on the aesthetic principles that formed the foundations of modernism.
Download or read book The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer written by Jean Haskell Speer and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording his personal vision of the mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he created, in several thousand photographs, a distinctive body of work that affirms a traditional image of Appalachia -- a region of great natural beauty inhabited by a self-sufficient people whose lives are notable for simplicity and harmony. For this book, Jean Haskell Speer has selected more than 120 representative photographs from Palmer's collection and has written a biographical and critical commentary based on extensive interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photographs, Speer argues, are significant cultural statements that depict not so much a geographical region as a particular idea of Appalachia.
Download or read book The Appalachian Photographs written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grapevine written by and published by Cornerhouse Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes interviews conducted by Susan Lipper with Grapevine residents during her visit in 1993.
Download or read book The Darkness and the Light written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Odd Tribes written by John Hartigan Jr. and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odd Tribes challenges theories of whiteness and critical race studies by examining the tangles of privilege, debasement, power, and stigma that constitute white identity. Considering the relation of phantasmatic cultural forms such as the racial stereotype “white trash” to the actual social conditions of poor whites, John Hartigan Jr. generates new insights into the ways that race, class, and gender are fundamentally interconnected. By tracing the historical interplay of stereotypes, popular cultural representations, and the social sciences’ objectifications of poverty, Hartigan demonstrates how constructions of whiteness continually depend on the vigilant maintenance of class and gender decorums. Odd Tribes engages debates in history, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies over how race matters. Hartigan tracks the spread of “white trash” from an epithet used only in the South prior to the Civil War to one invoked throughout the country by the early twentieth century. He also recounts how the cultural figure of “white trash” influenced academic and popular writings on the urban poor from the 1880s through the 1990s. Hartigan’s critical reading of the historical uses of degrading images of poor whites to ratify lines of color in this country culminates in an analysis of how contemporary performers such as Eminem and Roseanne Barr challenge stereotypical representations of “white trash” by claiming the identity as their own. Odd Tribes presents a compelling vision of what cultural studies can be when diverse research methodologies and conceptual frameworks are brought to bear on pressing social issues.
Download or read book Movers and Makers written by Doris Ulmann and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the 19th century, ideas concerning the value of work inspired a revival of handcraft that flourished in many parts of the US well into the 20th century. In the remote mountainous counties of four statesNorth Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginiathe revival was aimed at providing an income for impoverished families. Shared ideas concerning quality and resourcefulness contributed to an unintentional community of makers and patrons and who bridged two very different worlds. The makers world of log cabins, rutted roads, extended families, hillside farms, and quiet nights converged with the patrons world of privilege, finery, industry, and mobility. Makers created work that was displayed and sold; movement leaders organized guilds and exhibitions. Departing from a prestigious Park Avenue address, photographer Doris Ulmann traveled throughout Appalachia making pictures of both groups. Twenty-four of the artists photographs were selected to create a collective portrait of the revival, defining the movements scope and revealing its motivation. The forty-page paperback includes guest essays by Richard Kurin, Director of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Jean Haskell, Co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. M. Anna Fariello, author and curator, wrote the feature essay on the history and influences of the revival. The perfect-bound book contains 17 Doris Ulmann photographs including two rare self portraits, and five additional historical photographs, coupled with explanatory text.
