Friday, March 4, 2011

Jerry Uelsmann


Jerry N. Uelsmann, born on June 11, 1934, is an amazing surrealist photographer. While in high school, Uelsmann's interest in photography trully sparked. Uelsmann developed his love for photography because enjoyed to exist in a world outside by himself; a world captured by a lens.
He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in 1960. Uelsmann first solo exibit in 1967 trully oped the doors for his photography career. Uelsmann is a master printer producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image can be composed of multiple negatives. Uulsmann work is composed of allegorical surrealt imagers of quite unfathomable circumstance. Nowadays, photoshop allows people to easily create bizarre, surealist images in less then a day. However, at the time Uelsmann lived previous to all of the technological advancement and many considered his skill almost magical. Today, Uelsmann is retired in Florida and married to his third wife, another famous photographer, Maggie Tayor. Uelsmanns creates mouth-dropping, eye-shocking, incredible photographs.

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