Doris Ulmann, American, 1882-1934 Doris Ulmann, born into a wealthy family in New York City, is known primarily for her sensitive photographs documenting the rural people of Appalachia and the South in the 1920s-30s. She attended the Ethical Culture School and Columbia University Teacher's College (1907), where she studied psychology, law, and photography and was a student of Clarence H. White. A