I was sorting though some books I had in storage and came across one by Jerry Uelsmann. In the not so distant past, before digital cameras and photoshop was Uelsmann. A master in the darkroom he produced composite photographs with multiple negatives, sometimes using up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images. Uelsmann is a champion of the idea that the final image need not be tied to a single negative, but may be composed of many. During the mid-twentieth century, when photography was still being defined, Uelsmann didnt care about the boundaries given by the Photo Secessionists or other realists at the time, he simply wished to share the images from his imagination and saw photomontage as the means by which to do so.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 02:50:54 +0000