Jerry Uelsmann Super Imposed
A pioneer in the art of multilayered imagery, Jerry Uelsmann (born 1934) is best known for his extremely seamless grafted composite images in black and white format. His photographs combine several different negatives to create extremely surreal landscapes that interweave images of amazing looking trees, rocks, water and human figures in new and unexpected amazing way to create his own version of artiscal bliss. Jerry Norman Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 11, 1943, the second son of an independent grocer. Uelsmann enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1953. The strongest early influence on his creative process came from instructors like Minor White and Ralph Hattersly. Uelsmann’s most significant lesson from instructor White was that his camera had the ability not only to record images but also that it did have the potential of transcending the subject.