Untitled
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.2 × 27.4 cm (8 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gregory and Aline Gooding
Accession Number
2017.161.23
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg's *Untitled* (1980) is a compelling gelatin silver print, measuring 21.2 × 27.4 cm, now cherished in the National Gallery of's Department of Contemporary Photographs (CPH). Generously gifted by Gregory and Aline Gooding, this modestly scaled work captures the essence of late 20-century photography during a time when artists were pushing boundaries between documentation and abstraction. The gelatin silver print medium, a hallmark of analog photography, involves light-sensitive emulsion on paper, yielding luminous tonal ranges, crisp details, and deep blacks prized by pho...
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...