Description from back cover: "The work of Jerry Uelsmann, one of America's most influential and innovative contemporary photographers, is widely collected, exhibited in all major museums, and published in several books. This collection of new photographs is the first of his books in which he shows how he achieves his unique multiple images. Ueslmann narrates his own creative process in a fascinating visual account of a single day's work in the darkroom."

Uelsmann: Process and Perception

Arts & Photography

Uelsmann, Jerry N.

Photography & Video

University Press of Florida

Photographs create a surrealistic mood by seamlessly combining and overlapping images

Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis

Individual Artists

Uelsmann / Yosemite

From the foreword:"Few Americans have so effectively as Uelsmann rendered in art the union of human beings with nature."--David Robertson, University of California, DavisFrom the introduction:"Some artists view the world as if looking through a window at things happening 'out there,' while others view the world as if looking in a mirror at a world inside themselves.  Uelsmann bridges that gulf, taking in optical reality and offering back a landscape of the mind. . . . For years I looked at [his] pictures, trying to figure out what all those juxtapositions meant.  Until one day I suddenly realized:  there are no juxtapositions. Jerry Uelsmann's Yosemite is a world complete unto itself."--Ted Orland, photographer, coauthor of Art and Fear When Jerry Uelsmann composes Yosemite National Park, rocks float.  So do clocks and flamingos.  Nudes glide through white water rapids.  Acclaimed as an international master of photomontage, Uelsmann creates images of the park so wild and personal that they expand the concept of nature photography. For collectors of Uelsmann's work, this is the first time his photography has been presented in a book unified by a single theme, the landscape of Yosemite.  Whether it's a place that thousands of tourists visit every year, or an aesthetic in the mind, Uelsmann allows his audience to decide.  Indeed, the bold eyeballs that peer off these pages--from trap door and tree trunks and stuffed owls--compel the viewer to participate in his artistic consciousness. In the early '70s, Ansel Adams invited Uelsmann to teach a workshop with him in Yosemite.  In the following years, Uelsmann returned to the park on many occasions, including astint in 1992 as artist-in-residence.  This book celebrates his interior journey through Yosemite, a spiritual adventure that's both playful and poetic.  (Adams is on the itinerary, stenciled in silver on the face of Half Dome.) In the introduction, writer and photographer Ted Orland describes Uelsmann's mind as a universe that's "undeniably Jungian--a place where angels linger, paradox abounds, and the earth at times yields darker secrets."  In his efforts to fathom the secrets of the park, Uelsmann says he wrestles with the Yosemite gods, fighting the whole notion of the romantic landscape tradition, every time he works with his Yosemite negatives.  "The strong presence of the place turns the struggle for personal vision into an event that is introspective and challenging," he writes.  "Over the years, a few specific trees and rocks have become friends and I visit them whenever I go.  They are an important part of this book."  Jerry Uelsmann's work is permanently represented in all major collections, including those at the Metropolitan Museum (New York), the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Royal Photographic Society (London).  He has had one-person shows in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the George Eastman House.  His previous books with the University Press of Florida include Uelsmann: Process and Perception (1985) and Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis (1992).  He has been graduate research professor of art at the University of Florida since 1974.

History & Criticism

“The history of photography has had very few individuals who have transfigured the art, but for our present era it is hard to name one whose career and prominence can rival that of Jerry Uelsmann.”—Roy L. Flukinger
“Uelsmann is one of photography’s greatest and most generous creative spirits, dazzling us with visions at once completely novel and deeply, universally true.”—Keith F. Davis
For more than five decades, Jerry Uelsmann has sought to transform photography, de-emphasizing its function as a form of documentation, liberating it as a medium capable of re-imagining the real. Widely known as one of the forefathers of the digitally manipulated image, his work has influenced and inspired a broad range of artists and photographers—even as he maintains his strict adherence to purely analog tools to explore “the alchemy of the darkroom.” Acclaimed as an international master of photomontage, Uelsmann crafts his images using the integration of multiple negatives and processing effects—a fact that members of the digital generation often overlook. Over half a century after he first broke onto the scene, Uelsmann continues to develop his unique, transformational style—one that fascinates and engages artists, students, and general audiences across the world—and to explore ways to merge the subjective and objective in a single image. Uelsmann Untitled features the largest number of Uelsmann images ever collected in a single volume. Among them are some that have never before been published, several beloved favorites, and many rarely seen images. Drawn from his entire career, they show both the evolution of his technique and the solidity of his vision. An accompanying essay by Carol McCusker, curator of photography at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, provides historical and biographical context and discusses Uelsmann’s formative experiences and his coming of age as a photographer.

Uelsmann Untitled: A Retrospective

Silver Meditations

NY 1975 first edition. Morgan and Morgan. Hardcover square 4to. Silver paper covered boards. Black end papers. 146 photographs illustrated in bw (one reproduced in color on front of dj.) Near Fine, no owner marks. in Near Fine dj (dj just faintly toned on panels and lightly toned on backstrip.)2

Morgan Morgan

Approaching the Shadow

Nazraeli Pr

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Uelsmann: Process and Perception

Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis

Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis

Uelsmann / Yosemite

Uelsmann Untitled: A Retrospective

Silver Meditations

Approaching the Shadow