Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry N. Uelsmannis an American photographer, and was the forerunner of photomontage in the 20th century in America...
self photographer
All knowledge is self-reflective.
years photographer clue
I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through...
photography creating-value numbers
Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly better quality. But that's not the case with photography. To me, it's a false way of creating value.
photography attitude crafts
I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
reality way cameras
The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality
simple phones cells
The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there’s a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
ideas trying preconceived-ideas
I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.
Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself,
ideas feelings desire
My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.
photography moving thinking
Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.
suffering doe variation
When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.
thinking photograph obvious
I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.
artist goal mystery
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
art frustration order
Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.