Untitled
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 23.5 × 30.5 cm (9 1/4 × 12 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gregory and Aline Gooding
Accession Number
2017.161.26
Art Historical Context
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg'sUntitled* (1980) is a striking gelatin silver print, a classic black-and-white photographic medium prized for its exceptional tonal range, sharp detail, and luminous grayscale depths. Measuring a intimate 23.5 × 30.5 cm (9¼ × 12 in.), modestly scaled work exemplifies the precision of traditional darkroom techniques, where light-sensitive silver halides embedded in gelatin emulsion capture nuanced shadows and highlights with enduring clarity. Created at the dawn of the 1980s, during a period when photography increasingly explored architecture, transience, and human-made...
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...