I first ran across Jerry's work in the short lived but beautifully printed magazine "Aperture" in the late 60's early 70's.
I still have a copy or two around - somewhere. Amazing then. More amazing now. On Jul 20, 2012, at 07:52 , Darren Addy wrote: > Jerry Uelsmann has long been one of my Photographic Heroes. I didn't > become aware of him until the mid-70s, when my love of photography was > hatched, not with a camera but with an enlarger, in a High School > yearbook darkroom. Uelsmann was featured in several photography > magazine articles around that time. I purchased or subscribed to > Peterson's Photographic religiously, where I seem to recall being > first exposed to his surreal work. > > I've recently had my interst in him reawakened and just found a great > deal on a signed First Edition of his 1982 "Twenty-Five Years: A > Retrospective" -- a rather funny title when you consider he is still > going relatively strongly, thirty years later. I would imagine that a > fascination with his work may be somewhat lost on the new generation > that has grown up with Photoshop (many of whom know next-to-nothing of > traditional darkroom methods). Uelsmann was not the first to employ > his technique (that distinction, conventional wisdom awards to Oscar > Gustave Rejlander, considered the father of the Combination Print. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Gustave_Rejlander ) Uelsmann, > however, is credited with raising the technique to a whole new level. > > Some links for those interested in learning more about Uelsmann or, > (for those who are more familiar) those wishing to review/renew their > knowledge of his work: > http://www.shutterbug.com/content/master-interview-jerry-uelsmann > http://lightresearch.net/interviews/uelsmann.html > http://www.photovisionmagazine.com/articles/uelsmann.html > http://www.imagearts.ryerson.ca/dsnyder/review_1983g.php > http://www.sptimes.com/2006/02/19/Floridian/Focusing_on_a_spiritu.shtml > Jerry Uelsmann "Master Works" > http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/jerryuelsmann/masterworks/index.htm > > Official website > http://www.uelsmann.net/ > > http://www.youtube.com/embed/MsVDXjthsaU > The YouTube link is a teaser for Bill Suchy's HD documentary on > Uelsmann, being prepared for PBS > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
