Untitled
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 23.8 × 29.3 cm (9 3/8 × 11 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gregory and Aline Gooding
Accession Number
2017.161.14
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dorn's *Untitled* (1980) is a compelling gelatin silver print, a medium celebrated for its rich tonal gradations and fine detail in black-and-white photography. 23.8 × 29.3 cm, this intimate-scale image exemplifies the technical precision of traditional darkroom processes popular through the late 20th century, just as color photography was gaining ground. Created during a pivotal era bridging the Cold War's tensions and the dawn of postmodernism, Schulz-Dornburg's work often explores architecture, landscapes, and human traces in transitional spaces, inviting viewers to ponder abs...
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...