Untitled
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 23.9 × 30.2 cm (9 7/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gregory and Aline Gooding
Accession Number
2017.161.2
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dburg's *Untitled* (1980) is a compelling gelatin silver print, capturing the artist's keen eye for architecture and place during a pivotal era of geopolitical change. Working in the late 20th century,-Dornburg, a German photographer renowned for her minimalist documentary style, often explored the built environments of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. This untitled work, measuring a intimate 23.9 × 30.2 cm, invites viewers to contemplate the subtle interplay of form, shadow, and history without overt narrative cues. The medium of gelatin silver print— a classic black-and-white ...
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...