Feb 19, 2015 - Sale 2374

Sale 2374 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ULMANN, DORIS (1882-1934)
African American laborer. Silver print, 6 1/2x4 3/4 inches (16.5x12.1 cm.), with Ulmann's monogram, in red ink, on recto. Circa 1918

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An early work by Ulmann, who was a graduate of the Ethical Culture School and Columbia University, Teacher's College, where she met and studied with photographer Clarence H. White, a founding member of the Photo-Secession. White's Pictorialist approach profoundly influenced Ulmann, who is known for her humanist portraits of African-Americans.