Teenager with Sleeping Child, Linefork, Kentucky. Doris Ulmann, photographer (American, 1882 - 1934) 1930–1934 Doris Ulmann’s unlikely composition juxtaposing the darkness of a log cabin interior with unorthodox lighting and a confused sense of exterior space, this "discovered" moment between an exhausted toddler and a teenage girl (perhaps the child’s mother or sister) is a remarkably sensitive depiction of innocent trust and the maternal impulse. Its realism contrasts sharply with Pictorialist Gertrude Kasebier's (1852-1934) more academic portrayals of the mother-and-child theme ()
Teenager with Sleeping Child, Linefork, Kentucky. Doris Ulmann, photographer (American, 1882 - 1934) 1930–1934 Doris Ulmann’s unlikely composition juxtaposing the darkness of a log cabin interior with unorthodox lighting and a confused sense of exterior space, this "discovered" moment between an exhausted toddler and a teenage girl (perhaps the child’s mother or sister) is a remarkably sensitive depiction of innocent trust and the maternal impulse. Its realism contrasts sharply with Pictorialist Gertrude Kasebier's (1852-1934) more academic portrayals of the mother-and-child theme () and foreshadows the documentary style of later New Deal photographers, such as Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who reported on the human element of the Great Depression (see , , and ).\n\nJudith Keller. Doris Ulmann, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996), 96. ©1996, J. Paul Getty Trust.
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