Other Realities by Jerry Uelsmann, Paul Karabinis (Preface by), Peter C. Bunnell, Paul Karabanis

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Detroit native Uelsmann remains a much sought-after photographer among collectors and museums worldwide. This "best of" features 60 of his "sandwiched-negative" black-and-white masterpieces, accompanied by inspirational quotations from a wide variety of sources, including those by other artists. These mind-bending images truly are of "other realities," and words easily fail at interpreting them. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Biography

Jerry Uelsmann's long and celebrated career has been closely intertwined with the history of photography in our time. Born in Detroit in 1934, he studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Indiana University. Uelsman began teaching at the University of Florida in 1960 and has been a graduate research professor there since 1974. He has recently retired from teaching and continues to photograph and lecture about his work. Past books include Jerry Uelsmann: Photo Synthesis and Uelsmann: Process and Perception. He lives with his wife, artist Maggie Taylor, in Gainesville, Florida.

Peter Bunnell is one of our foremost experts on photography. For thirty years he was McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art at Princeton University, where he also served as faculty curator of photography at the university's art museum.