Jerry Uelsmann, Gainesville FL
Photograph
Jerry Uelsmann, Gainesville FL
1998
Gelatin silver print
6/25
Image: 21.5 x 61.5 cm
Overall: 51 x 68 cm
Gift of Stu Levy, 2005
2005.0364.0003
Inscriptions recto, mat (pencil) : [signature]
verso (pencil): Photography by Stu Levy / 2740 SW Fairview Blvd. / Portland OR 97205 / 503-222-2553
verso (pencil) [title] / Print #6 / Edition of 25 and 5 artists's proofs / [signature]
vesro (pencil): 1.5 / 1 1/2 / 29%
verso (pencil): Photography by Stu Levy / 2740 SW Fairview Blvd. / Portland OR 97205 / 503-222-2553
verso (pencil) [title] / Print #6 / Edition of 25 and 5 artists's proofs / [signature]
vesro (pencil): 1.5 / 1 1/2 / 29%
Text(In a letter to curator Alison Nordström from the photographer, Mr. Levy stated, "I've also enclosed some written material about each [image], which I've been feeling more and more is an integrated part of the image and should be presented with the image when shown."):
Jerry Uelsmann's photographs are made of several images blended together, using his darkroom magic into seamless, surrealistic fantasies. I've known him since the early 80's but was finally able to visit him in Gainesville, Florida shortly before he retired from teaching at the University of Florida. The complexity and humor of his images is reflected in the collections of trinkets he has neatly arranged around his home, ranging from a Honk if you Like Stieglitz bumper sticker to a collection of plastic hamburgers.
We both marveled over the fact that the previous year we had both visited and photographed an incongruous exhibit of Peace Buddha’s in the Royal Garden of Prazsky Hrad, the hilltop center of government in Prague, so a floating Buddha was incorporated into the portrait.
Jerry Uelsmann's photographs are made of several images blended together, using his darkroom magic into seamless, surrealistic fantasies. I've known him since the early 80's but was finally able to visit him in Gainesville, Florida shortly before he retired from teaching at the University of Florida. The complexity and humor of his images is reflected in the collections of trinkets he has neatly arranged around his home, ranging from a Honk if you Like Stieglitz bumper sticker to a collection of plastic hamburgers.
We both marveled over the fact that the previous year we had both visited and photographed an incongruous exhibit of Peace Buddha’s in the Royal Garden of Prazsky Hrad, the hilltop center of government in Prague, so a floating Buddha was incorporated into the portrait.
