Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis
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Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis Details
From Publishers Weekly In an enlightening, authoritative foreword to this retrospective collection of Uelsmann's radical photo art, Coleman, who teaches at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, cites photomontages of 19th-century sentimentalists and Dadaists of the 1920s as important precursors to Uelsmann's work--the intermanipulation of two or more pre-imaged negatives to produce a single ``post-visualized'' print. As seen here in seamless cohesion, improbably matched images ``appear integral to the depicted scene.'' In a reverse kinship of form, four hands softly entwined contrast with four rocks suspended and forbodingly separate in mid-air; individual orbed faces are either hand-held or framed in a geographer's globe; a tiny human figure climbs the slope of a tilted drafting-board in a richly paneled chamber open to the sky. Uelsmann's originality is impressive. Copyright 1992 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Read more
Reviews
Images contained in this volume are a wonderful representation of Jerry Uelsmann's work. Inspiring black and white images of darkroom overlaying exposures. Photography students seeking inspiration for working overlapping exposures would benefit from this book.