Texas Fantasy No 2
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel, CA
A true unique Uelsmann. A wonderful addition to the collector.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry Uelsmann Art
American, b. 1934
Jerry N. Uelsmann is an American photographer, and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America.
Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan. While attending public schools, at the age of fourteen, there sparked an interest in photography. He believed that through photography he could exist outside of himself, to live in a world captured through the lens. Despite poor grades, he managed to land a few jobs, primarily photographs of models.
Eventually Uelsmann went on to earn a BA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and M.S. and M.F.A. degrees from Indiana University. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in 1960. In 1967, Uelsmann had his first solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, which opened doors for his photography career.
Uelsmann is a master printer, producing composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images, and has a large archive of negatives that he has shot over the years. The negatives that Uelsmann uses are known to reappear within his work, acting as a focal point in one work, and background as another. Similar in technique to Oscar Rejlander, Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, but may be composed of many.
During the mid-twentieth century, when photography was still being defined, Uelsmann didn't care about the boundaries given by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time, he simply wished to share with the viewer the images from his imagination and saw photomontage as the means by which to do so. Unlike Rejlander, though, he does not seek to create narratives, but rather "allegorical Surrealist imagery of the unfathomable."
Uelsmann is able to subsist on grants and teaching salary, rather than commercial work. Today, with the advent of digital cameras and Photoshop, photographers are able to create a work somewhat resembling Uelsmann's in less than a day; however, at the time Uelsmann was considered to have almost "magical skill" with his completely analog tools. At the time Uelsmann's work first came to popular attention, photos were still widely regarded as unfalsifiable documentary evidence of events. However, Uelsmann, along with Lucas Samaras, was considered an avant garde shatterer of this popular mindset and help to expand the artistic boundaries of photography.
“I am sympathetic to the current digital revolution and excited by the visual options created by the computer. However, I feel my creative process remains intrinsically linked to the alchemy of the darkroom,” Uelsmann has said.
Today Uelsmann is retired from teaching and currently lives in Gainesville, Florida with his third wife, Maggie Taylor. But to this day, he still produces photos, sometimes creating more than a hundred in a single year. Out of these images, he likes to sit back and select the ten he likes the most, which is not an easy process.
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Artist: Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry UelsmannDoor of Deception - Nude With Rocks Surf, Double Exposure, 1982
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Door of Deception - Nude With Rocks Surf, Double Exposure
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel, CA
Vintage Mint Condition Platinum Photograph Fabulous image in the true style of Uelsmann
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1980s Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
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Yosemite, Eye Door
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist Signed in pen on verso Untitled 1995 Mint Condition
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1990s Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled I 1980
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Jerry UelsmannUntitled (Philosopher's Desk)
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Untitled (Philosopher's Desk)
By Jerry Uelsmann
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Jerry UelsmannUntitled II 1980, 1980
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Untitled II 1980
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannUntitled 1977, 1977
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Untitled 1977
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Jerry UelsmannUntitled 2001, 2001
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Untitled 2001
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannEye Chair 1969, 1969
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Eye Chair 1969
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannHomage to Duchamp 2000, 2000
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By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
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Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Jerry UelsmannHome is a Memory 1963, 1963
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Home is a Memory 1963
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannTemple and Sphere 1980, 1980
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Temple and Sphere 1980
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannImprobable Assignation 2002, 2002
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Improbable Assignation 2002
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
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Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannFloating Rock
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Floating Rock
By Jerry Uelsmann
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannUndiscovered Self
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Undiscovered Self
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Made in the darkroom by Jerry Uelsmann using up to seven enlarger. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes as our inventory is subject to change.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannUntitled 1982, 1982
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Untitled 1982
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Made in the darkroom by Jerry Uelsmann using up to seven enlarger. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes as our inventory is subject to change.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannRock Tree
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Rock Tree
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
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Jerry UelsmannDream Moment 1977, 1977
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Dream Moment 1977
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannSmall Woods Where I Met Myself 1967
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Small Woods Where I Met Myself 1967
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes.
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20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannApocalypse II
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Apocalypse II
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed and dated on the front of the print.
Category
20th Century Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Jerry UelsmannPoet's House
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Poet's House
By Jerry Uelsmann
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front. Made in the darkroom by Jerry Uelsmann using up to seven enlarger. Contact gallery for prices and available sizes as our inventory is subject to change.
Category
1990s Jerry Uelsmann Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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