Sunday, November 15, 2009

Assignment 6 Research

Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer who is well known for taking two distinct photographs and integrating them to create very strange and unique photographs. Uelsmann is a master in printing, producing complex photographs with many negatives and extensive darkroom work. He uses up to a dozen enlargers at a time to produce his final images. His final image must be composed of many negatives. All of Uelsmann’s images are black and white. His dreamlike images play with our minds and transport the viewers into another world.

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor depicts trancelike images of fantasy. Her photographs are produced using multiple images. She buys paintings from various flea markets and takes pictures of these painting. She then scans the photographs onto a computer and uses Adobe Photoshop to manipulate the images into a surrealistic montage. By altering and overlapping her images of various fantasy-like creatures, she is able to create innovative and remarkable photographs.

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