Jerry Uelsmann is an American analogue photographer born in 1934 who lives in Gainesville, Florida. He is known for his surrealist photocompositions created in the darkroom through techniques like multiple exposures and manipulating negatives to combine different images. Uelsmann sees photography as a way to creatively explore the world and believes there are no uninteresting subjects, only uninterested people. He taught photography at the University of Florida and is married to artist Maggie Taylor.

1. Jerry Uelsmann American Born, 1934- Gainesville Resident

2. A analogue photographer with surrealist inclinations and a photoshop aesthetic done completely in the dark room with multiple exposures and negatives.

3. “ My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.”

4. and he taught at UF, still lives in Gainesville and is married to artist, Maggie Taylor.

5. So if you remember…

6. Surrealism is an avant-garde movement in art and literature in the 1920’s that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

7. Some common surrealist techniques are… Minification/Magnification Multiplication Fragmentation Metamorphosis Transference Distortion

8. Minification /Magnification: Something is made to appear smaller/bigger than expected.

9. Multiplication : Repeating images or forms within a composition

10. Fragmentation : Splitting or fragmenting objects or images. The subject may be either partially developed, fragmented, or dismembered.

11. Metamorphosis : Something in a progressive states of change.

12. Transference : The intrusion of an object or element into a space or environment not normally its own; the displacement of an object or elements into a new situation.

13. Distortion : the use of latent or hidden images; obscuring the qualities of an object

14. Apply the six common surrealist techniques to the following images.

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21. M.C. Escher G.

22. Rene Magritte H.

23. Man Ray I.

24. Dali J.

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26. L. Kiki Smith

27. Frida Kahlo M.

28. Mark Ryden N.

29. Ron Mueck O.