![Doris Ulmann, [Black Woman in Cap and Gingham Dress]](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/25ff52b2-3811-4c7b-ad69-dfec7dfdca58/full/!1400,/0/default.jpg)
[Black Woman in Cap and Gingham Dress]
1929–1930
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Dimensions
- 20.5 × 15.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-288447
Doris Ulmann's photographs of Southern black people often seem to idealize their subjects. In the 1920s and 1930s, Ulmann, a woman of means from New York, documented what she perceived to be a vanishing black culture. The woman is posed with her hands in her lap, her lips pursed, and her bespectacled eyes gazing directly at the viewer. While her gingham-checked dress and striped cap are quite lively, her demeanor is calm. Ulmann's sensitive study depicts a woman who, though very different from herself, was equally dignified.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1929–1930 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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