Jerry Uelsmann (USA)

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977
Gelatin silver print
30,5 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 cm (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1968
Untitled, 1968
Gelatin silver print
27 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1972
Gelatin silver print
20,3 x 25,4 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977
Gelatin silver print
30,5 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 cm (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1980
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1983
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1987
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1996
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1997
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 2003
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm 
Signed and dated by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Hommage to Herbert Bayer, 2004
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto
Jerry Uelsmann, Journey into Night, 2006
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann

(USA)

Born 1934 in Detroit, USA. Died 2022 in Gainesville, Florida, USA.

Uelsmann is one of the most influential photographers of his generation, because he did not only challenge with his montages the prevailing canon of his chosen medium, but he also anticipated an image language that came only into fruition in this perfection with the rise of digital imaging and photo editing technologies a few decades later. Since the 1960s, Uelsmann composed surreal visual worlds and narratives in long hours of tinkering with a selection of different negatives in his darkroom. With his light-sensitive photo paper in hand, he would march down a row of up to seven enlargers in order to manually expose one picture element after the other into the pre-visualized motif. Thus, the resulting dream landscapes, fantasies or nightmares are basically all unique prints, even though Uelsmann always tried to produce ten comparable prints of each image.

John Szarkowski curated one of the first solo exhibitions of Uelsmann’s work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1967. More exhibitions followed in many renowned institutions around the globe, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; Chicago Art Institute, USA; International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, USA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan.

Photography
Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1968

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1968
Untitled, 1968
Gelatin silver print
27 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1968

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1968
Untitled, 1968
Gelatin silver print
27 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1972

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1972
Gelatin silver print
20,3 x 25,4 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1972

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1972
Gelatin silver print
20,3 x 25,4 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977
Gelatin silver print
30,5 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 cm (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1977
Gelatin silver print
30,5 x 27 cm (image) / 35,5 x 28 cm (sheet)
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1980

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1980
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1980

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1980
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1983

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1983
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1983

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1983
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1987

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1987
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1987

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1987
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1992
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1996

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1996
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1996

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1996
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1997

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1997
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1997

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 1997
Gelatin silver print
50,8 x 40,6 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 2003

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 2003
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 2003

Jerry Uelsmann, Untitled, 2003
Gelatin silver print
40,6 x 50,8 cm
Signed and dated by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Hommage to Herbert Bayer, 2004

Jerry Uelsmann, Hommage to Herbert Bayer, 2004
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Hommage to Herbert Bayer, 2004

Jerry Uelsmann, Hommage to Herbert Bayer, 2004
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Journey into Night, 2006

Jerry Uelsmann, Journey into Night, 2006
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto

Jerry Uelsmann, Journey into Night, 2006

Jerry Uelsmann, Journey into Night, 2006
Gelatin silver print
48,5 x 38 cm (image) / 50,5 x 40,5 (sheet)
Signed, dated and captioned by photographer recto