Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann was born June 11, 1934 in Detroit. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and received a B.F.A degree in 1957. He later got a M.S and M.F.A degree at Indiana University in 1960. He then decided to teach photography, in 1960, at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1967, Jerry Uelsmann had a solo exhibit at The Museum Of Modern Arts. Uelsmann is very good at using the printer to produce composite photographs with multiple negatives and extensive darkroom work. He used a variety of enlargers to produce the expected effects.

Jerry Uelsmann uses many negatives to create surreal images of landscapes that interweave trees, rocks, water and human beings. Because of his creative imagination, Uelsmann's photographs have been exhibited in more than 100 solo shows and are in permanent collections of many museums. The museums include The Metropolitan Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan and many more.

Jerry Uelsmann photography has influenced the way I see photos now. I feel that I want to be able to make photography more interesting like the ones Uelsmann has created. His photography opened my eyes to a whole new art of photo taking and capturing images that aren't actually real.