I first found out about Jerry Uelsmann during photo class the other day and I immediately fell in love with his work. My teacher explained his work perfectly by saying that he created photoshop before it even existed. Uelsmann would take multiple pictures and after developing the film he would cut up the negatives and put them together seamlessly to create a flawless surrealist image. His photographs are so complex that he sometimes uses multiple enlargers just to get each photo perfectly the way he wants them to be. He approached photography with a completely different mindset and took photographs, which are already works of art, and made them into even better works of art. His photos have a sort of painterly feel to them because he reflects a lot of aspects that are characteristic to Surrealist paintings. The detail of his work is the most captivating part because I understand that making perfect prints is difficult enough without merging multiple negatives together.
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June 2018
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