In Focus: Doris Ulmann

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

Judith Keller Doris Ulmann is a contradictory figure in the history of photography. A wealthy New York photographer, she is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A frail woman, she made numerous trips into the rugged Appalachian region. A prolific creator, she died before many of her last images could be printed. Considered one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, she disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s.  The J. Paul Getty Museum…