Jerry Uelsmann is known as the alchemist because of his style of photography. not literaly photography because actually what he playing with the dark room and composition of combining 2 or more photograph together. if you see the first picture, maybe your assumption about his work is more set in to the art or surrealism . it is true that most of his work is about something that did not exist in real world. what being the characteristic of Jerry besides the multilayered photo is that every work he done is unique because he tend to create something that nobody can do like combining tree and a house, water surface with hands.
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ReplyDeleteJust to clarify though, Jerry Uelsmann's photomontage art is all on film, not digital. He shoots on 35mm B&W film negatives & then creates his magical, eerie images in the darkroom. All photochemical & mechanical.