Jerry Uelsmann’s photography and his impact on culture and society

Jerry Uelsmann has impacted society culturally and ethnically with his surreal engineering photography. His personal beliefs and surrealistic perspective defined his photography. He bases his creative process and how he engineers his photographs around his philosophy and morals. He used many techniques that challenged his will to work so extensively because of the complexity of his photographs, and paved the way for surrealistic photography in the present. Jerry Uelsmann’s photography surpasses the state of reality so much it looks perfectly photo shopped, but his photography took place decades before Photoshop. He is a photographer who pioneered the art of multi layered imagery years ahead of anyone else. He uses only his own negatives from the pictures that he shoots, and he says that he does this often without a specific composition in mind. Uelsmann was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 11th 1934. Jerry is best known for his in black and white images that he layered skillfully without the use of Photoshop. His photographs combine several negatives to create his landscapes that mix images of trees, rocks, water and human figures in new and sometimes unexpected ways. He has impacted society culturally and ethnically with his surreal engineering in photography. Through Jerry Uelsmann's inspiration and creative process he assembles elements of pictures together, rather than just taking a normal photograph to make a profound and thought provoking photography. His personal beliefs and surrealistic perspective defined his photography. He always based his creative process and how he engineers his photographs around his philosophy and morals. Jerry Uelsmann paved the way for surrealistic photography in the present, impacting society ...

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... without him, the world would not be as it is today. Jerry Uelsmann always incorporated his inner self and beliefs into his photography instead of the outside. He was able to find the will to so exstensively work for one photograph through his surrealistic philosophy and beliefs in art. He used many techniques and styles in hsi photography that was absolutely unfathomable in his time because Photoshop did not exist. I personally believe that Jerry Uelsmann was perhaps one of the most important artists in photography. Without him, this sense of inner self and creativity he subscribed himself to would not have engulfed the photography world. He focused on dreamlike story bound photos that connected deeply inside a person instead of a connection on the outside. He defined the idea that the mind and dreams can be more real a reality than the one that is presented to us.