1. Jerry Norman Uelsmann was an American photographer.
32 Facts About Jerry Uelsmann
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Jerry Uelsmann decided the contents of the final print after rather than before pressing the shutter button.
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Jerry Uelsmann constructed his dreams like a visual poet with results that often seemed emotionally more real than the factual world.
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Jerry Uelsmann's work influenced generations of both analog and digital photographers.
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Jerry Uelsmann's mother saved his artworks beginning in kindergarten and continuing into college.
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Jerry Uelsmann appreciated White's mystical philosophy and devotion to Zen-like meditation even when not photographing.
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Jerry Uelsmann recalled the demanding yet meaningful assignments given by Hattersley that caused him to see ordinary objects differently and personally.
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Jerry Uelsmann took extensive art history courses and was particularly fascinated by surrealists including Rene Magritte, Joseph Cornell, and Man Ray, all of whom worked from dreams, fantasies, and visions.
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Jerry Uelsmann claimed a debt to the 19th-century photomontage artists, Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson.
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In 1960, Jerry Uelsmann earned two degrees from Indiana University, MS and MFA.
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Jerry Uelsmann was recruited in 1960 by Van Deren Coke to teach at the University of Florida, one of the few universities offering photography as a concentration for fine arts majors.
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Jerry Uelsmann taught at UF until his retirement in 1998.
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Jerry Uelsmann had a career breakthrough in 1967 with a solo exhibition of photomontages at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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In 1978 Jerry Uelsmann was included in "Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960" directed by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, NY.
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In 1981, Jerry Uelsmann was named one of the top ten most collected photographers by American Photographer magazine.
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Jerry Uelsmann was inducted as a fellow by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and invited to deliver the fourth Bertram Cox Memorial Lecture in early 1971.
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Jerry Uelsmann expressed gratitude for what photography revealed about himself and his fellow human beings.
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Jerry Uelsmann joked about negative sandwiches and the random decision of using a leaf of lettuce saying he finally had a negative sandwich that was edible.
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Jerry Uelsmann produced composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work.
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Jerry Uelsmann operated up to a dozen enlargers to produce his final images drawing from a large archive of negatives.
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Jerry Uelsmann covered a large drafting table with hundreds of proof sheets.
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Jerry Uelsmann folded and overlapped various contact prints, explored the visual possibilities, then brought the options into his darkroom.
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Jerry Uelsmann moved the photo paper progressively down the line of enlargers building up an image.
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Jerry Uelsmann was a firm believer that the final image need not be tied to a single negative.
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Jerry Uelsmann's interpretations invite the viewer to interact with the subject.
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Partial chronologies on Jerry Uelsmann can be found in these two references.
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Jerry Uelsmann enjoyed sharing his experiences and seeing the photographs of young artists.
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Jerry Uelsmann often photographed miniature items like the white toy boat that appeared in some of his images.
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Jerry Uelsmann stated that this interpretation was one of many possibilities.
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Jerry Uelsmann believed that messages evoked from any image are derived from the experiences of the viewer.
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Jerry Uelsmann was married three times in this order: Marilynn Kamischke, Diane Farris, and Maggie Taylor.
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Jerry Uelsmann died on April 4,2022, at the age 87 In Gainesville, Florida.