Before There Was Photoshop, These Photographers Knew How to Manipulate an Image
Jerry Uelsmann and other artists manually blended negatives to produce dreamlike sequences
- By Paul Bisceglio
- Smithsonian magazine, May 2013
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(© Jerry N. Uelsmann)
As a student, Uelsmann had mentors who challenged him to put his emotions into his work. “I gained an appreciation of the idea that you can build images that can personally have great meaning for you,” he says. “I really identified with the transition from outer-directed art to what was essentially inner-directed art at the start of the 20th century.” In the darkroom, though, he tries not to get too theoretical: “My challenge is just to keep working and see what happens.” He made the image, shown above, in 1976.
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Comments (3)
The single photo representing the exhibit is in "Exhibitions/On Tour" on NGA's site, along with a most inflammatory, hackneyed and small-minded comment describing the exhibit: "...photography is—and always has been—a medium of fabricated truths and artful lies." I wonder how they feel about photojournalism?
Posted by James Stasiak on May 6,2013 | 12:05 AM
Thank you for exhibiting Mr. Uelsmann's photographs. I saw his work exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA and it is wondeful to behold. See these works of extroadinary sensitivity.
Posted by Christine Bertoni on April 27,2013 | 07:21 AM
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/faking.shtm Dead link
Posted by atye on April 26,2013 | 01:59 PM