The Georgia Museum of Art is opening a new exhibition tomorrow. Vernacular Modernism, the photography of Doris Ulmann has been in the making for at least four years. Hillary Brown is Communications Director. She says most people don’t know too much about here.
“Ulmann is a New York photographer, who was independently wealthy and mostly worked from the 1920s to 1934 when she died at a fairly young age.”
Brown says the photographer had a wide range of work.
“She photographed a lot of famous people, but she did things that more interesting than that too,” according to Brown. “She photographed people in the Shaker community and the Dunkards, who were similar, and Mennonites. She photographed people in the Gullah community on the coast, she photographed a lot of rural African-Americans, including here in Georgia.
Sarah Kate Gillespie is the curator for the exhibit.
