Jerry Uelsmann

This is a long overdue post, because Uelsmann is just one of those all time classics. I never was fond of his images, but the process was always beautiful to me. Uelsman used multiple enlargers and printed multiple negatives into one image in the darkroom, merging them seamlessly.

Like I said, I was never big on the images, but these two made my jaw drop, literally. Maybe it's just my own taste, and love for human v. nature concepts in art, but I think these are stunning!!






My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. For me to walk around the block where I live could take 5 minutes. But when I have a camera, it could take five hours. You just engage in the world differently. If you can get to a point where you respond emotionally, not intellectually, with your camera there’s a whole world to encounter. There’s a lot of source material once you have the freedom of not having to complete an image at the camera.

--Jerry Uelsmann