[Cobbler, West Ninety-Second Street, New York City]

1925–1932

Current Collection

Los Angeles, United States

Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: 20.9 × 15.7 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-725165

The laborer shown at work appears to have been a dominant theme in Doris Ulmann's photography from the beginning. This composition is strikingly similar to contemporaneous images of tradespeople that the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) would begin to organize into typological categories in the 1920s. Sander's personal archive of German faces, albeit more systematic than Ulmann's American series, is comparative in its technical aspects, nationalistic enthusiasm, and obsessive, independent nature (see [84.XM.126.141](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/34302/august-sander-master-shoemaker-schustermeister-german-about-1924/), [84.XM.498.16](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/40598/august-sander-typical-resident-of-blauer-stein-in-leuscheid-rhein-shoemaker-type-vom-blauer-stein-aus-der-leuscheid-rhineland-schuhmacher-german-1931/), [84.XM.126.475](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/34629/august-sander-type-from-blauen-stein-in-leuscheidt-rheinland-profession-shoemaker-type-vom-blauen-stein-aus-der-leuscheidt-rheinland-beruf-schuster-german-1931/)). In a relatively brief session interrupting this cobbler's day, Ulmann made five six-by-eight-i…

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

1925–1932 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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