[Fisherman with Wooden Leg, Near Brookgreen Plantation, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina]

1929–1931

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

20 × 15.1 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-625179

For a brief time in the early 1920s Julia Peterkin's family owned Brookgreen Plantation on the South Carolina coast near Murrells Inlet. Peterkin (1880-1961), a writer, would spend her summers at the inlet, making creative use of the setting while working in a small cottage. On at least one occasion Doris Ulmann traveled from New York to Myrtle Beach; from there the two artists went out in search of photographic material for Peterkin’s novel *Roll, Jordan, Roll* (1933) ([https://primo.getty.edu](https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=GETTY_ALMA21132793620001551&context=L&vid=GRI&lang=en_US&search_scope=COMBINED&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=all_gri&query=any,contains,julia%20peterkin&mode=basic)). As she had when she first began photographing, Ulmann sought out the working men of the area. The fishermen of the coastal communities were apparently a favorite subject. She exposed at least twelve plates of this disabled young man and made more than twenty negatives of a man and boy oystering ([87.XM.89.159](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62509/doris-ulmann-man-and-boy-oystering-near-brookgreen-plantation-murrells-inlet-south-carolina-american-about…