Jerry N. Uelsmann
Experimental Design Project Using Photographic Materials

Experimental Design Project Using Photographic Materials

© Jerry Uelsmann

Experimental Design Project Using Photographic Materials
Experimental Design Project Using Photographic Materials
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Experimental Design Project Using Photographic Materials
Date1958
MediumGelatin silver print with collage
DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 7 in. (18.9 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/16 × 7 in. (18.9 × 17.8 cm)
Mount: 11 × 8 5/16 in. (28 × 21.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2497
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAmid a climate in which straight, Modernist photographs represented the pinnacle of artistic achievement in the medium, Jerry Uelsmann broke with that style, reviving the techniques of collage and combination printing pioneered by Victorian art photographers. His pictures, made rather than taken, are filled with surprising juxtapositions, implied symbolism, and bizarre contrasts of scale. Uelsmann’s work is now considered an important precursor to the seamless composites associated with digital photography and Photoshop.

ProvenanceEx-collection Graham Nash; Sotheby's, New York, 4/1990.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Sotheby's, New York, 4/24/1986.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
upper left corner of mount " I U Ed one[circled]", upper right " 2500 ",lower left "1595 ", left side "521"
lower right corner below image in pencil " J.N.U.1958",verso of mount lower right in ink " 1958 Jerry Uelsmann "
printed bottom edge of cover sheet " experimental design project using photographic materials jerry uelsmann "

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cropped recto of mount
Jerry N. Uelsmann
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82.576
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Jerry N. Uelsmann
1977
Gelatin silver print
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[Hand Over Waterfall]
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1976
Gelatin silver print
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Rock Tree
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1969
Gelatin silver print
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Untitled
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1969
Gelatin silver print
2002.3217
cropped recto of mount
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1978
Gelatin silver print
2002.2502
Untitled
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1968
Gelatin silver print
2002.2501
cropped recto of sheet
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1974
Gelatin silver print
2002.2500
[Self-portrait as a Diver]
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1977
Gelatin silver print
2002.3218
Ritual Ground
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1964
Gelatin silver print
2002.2964
cropped recto of sheet
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1967
Gelatin silver print
2002.2963
cropped recto of sheet
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1982
Gelatin silver print
85.231