Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis

by Jerry N. Uelsmann

Photographs create a surrealistic mood by seamlessly combining and overlapping images

Genres: Photography, Art

128 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1992

About the author

Jerry N. Uelsmann is an American photographer, and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America.

Reviews

[Combs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haven't read any other Uelsmann monographs, but this particular volume had swell reproductions and a lovely editorial styling -- rather than blindly sorting his work by topic or timing, they've mixed it all up into cross-time juxtapositious diptychs. Given the randomness of Uelsmann's work, this technique works well, and underscores the repeating motifs of his work. I came away feeling a lot more Jerry-versed. (The foreword is classic art-crit writing in high form, but offers some interesting ideas if you can muddle through it.)

[rsmithing · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great introduction to the world of Uelsmann's photo magic. I saw this book 20 years ago in a creative writing class, of all places, and made the effort some years later (after Amazon was invented) to seek it out and am glad I did. Looking back on my career and life since then, I can say unequivocally that it changed my thinking and helped set me on a creative path I'm still having fun exploring.

[Leonard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been looking at the photographs of Jerry Uelsmann since the 1960s and still enjoy and am amazed at his creativity. This book contains some of the excellent images I saw decades ago as well as some I don't remember seeing before. It seems as if I don't get tired of or bored with his creativity.

[Mickey A · Rating 5 out of 5]

On of Mike's and my favorite photographers. He put pieces of different pictures together in the darkroom, enlarging and edits before there were computers. From Gainesville.

[Petersam · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a slim book, but well compact.