Erevan - Gymri
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 35.9 × 44.9 cm (14 1/8 × 17 11/16 in.) sheet: 43 × 50.6 cm (16 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Charina Endowment Fund
Accession Number
2017.39.5
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's *Erevan - Gymri* (2000) is a striking gelatin silver print, a traditional black-and-white photographic process for its rich tonal range fine detail, and luminous depth. Measuring 35.9 × 44.9 cm (image) on a 43 × 50.6 cm sheet, this work belongs to the National Gallery of Art's of Photographs (CPH), acquired through the Charina Endowment Fund The title evokes Yerevan (Erevan), Armenia's vibrant capital, and Gyum (formerly Leninakan), a historic city northwest of it—places emblematic of Armenia's layered cultural and architectural heritage. Created at the turn of the mi...
About the Artist
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (b. 1938) is a German photographer and conceptual artist whose spare, methodical images of landscape, infrastructure, and architecture have established her as one of the most distinctive voices in European documentary photography. Born in Berlin, she studied ethnology at the University of Munich beginning in 1958 before transferring to study photojournalism at the Institut f...