Background
Doris Ulmann was born on May 29, 1884, in New York, United States. She was the daughter of Bernhard and Gertrude (Mass) Ulmann.
Doris Ulmann was born on May 29, 1884, in New York, United States. She was the daughter of Bernhard and Gertrude (Mass) Ulmann.
Doris Ulmann attended Ethical Culture Fieldston School, then Columbia University, both in New York City.
Doris Ulmann began her photography career as a portraitist in 1918. Her interest in American handicrafts took her to Appalachia around 1925, where she became taken with the people.
For the rest of her life, Doris Ulmann spent six to eight months a year traveling through the mountains and back roads of the South with her companion John Jacob Niles. Despite the fact that she in no way hid her tremendous family wealth, she produced straightforward, unpretentious, and respectful photographs of the Appalachian people, who remained unself-conscious before her camera's eye.
Doris Ulmann practiced Pictorialism and was a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America.
During her marriage, Doris Ulmann was briefly known as Doris Jaeger.