Uelsmann: Process and Perception by Uelsmann, Jerry N - 1985

University Press of Florida, 1985. paperback. Very Good. 8x0x10. University Press of Florida [Published Date: 1985]. Soft cover, 47 pages, 81 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm. No other printings listed. In very good condition. Glossy black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping to edges and light overall scuffing, aging and soiling. Binding tight. Light spotting to inside of front cover and front free end paper. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] The work of Jerry Uelsmann, one of America's most influential and innovative contemporary photographers, is widely collected, exhibited in all major museums, and published in several books. This collection of new photographs is the first of his books in which he shows how he achieves his unique multiple images. Uelsmann narrates his own creative process in a fascinating visual account of a single day's work in the darkroom. Beginning with his first effort of the day, he describes his various ideas, reactions to them, and feelings of dissatisfaction and gratification as he moves toward the final, successful image. The reader watches the photograph grow as Uelsmann adds elements to the composite and subtracts others - a rare opportunity to observe the artist at work. In another section of the book, the technical aspects of synthetic photography are examined in a step-by-step description of image - combining in the darkroom, illustrated by each separate photograph and the final multiple image. The book also includes a portfolio of ninety of Uelsmann's most recent photographs (most of them previously unpublished), introduced by a photographic essay by John Ames.