Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) Photographs, 1920s-1934

“A face that has the marks of having lived intensely, that expresses some phase of life, some dominant quality or intellectual power, constitute for me an interesting face. For this reason, the face of an older person, perhaps not beautiful in the strictest sense, is usually more appealing than the face of a younger person who has scarcely been touched by life”. So said Doris Ulmann in 1930. For pure beauty, Doris Ulmann’s photographs cannot be surpassed. The collection of more than 1,700 images at the University of Oregon’s Oregon Digital website is much more than studies in black and...