Untitled
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 24 × 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
2017.161.10
Art Historical Context
**Untitled** (1980) by Ursula-Dornburg is a gelatin silver print, measuring 24 × 30.2 cm, now housed in the National Gallery of Art CPH department through the generous gift of Gregory and Alineing. Created at the height of the Cold War, this untitled work captures Schulz-Dornburg's signature as a German photographer, whose career often explored architecture, urban environments, and the built landscape with a documentary eye. Gelatin silver prints like this one highlight the artistry of analog photography, where light-sensitive silver salts embedded in a gelatin emulsion produce rich blacks, l...
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...