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Jerry Uelsmann & Lucas Samaras
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Jerry Uelsmann
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Lucas Samaras
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Photography Around the 1940’s
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• Popular documentation photography, such as portraits.
• Example of this is Yousuf Karsh’s many portraits of famous people.
Winston Churchill, 1941Humphrey Bogart, 1946
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• Other examples of popular documentation photography were of events such as the Vietnam War.
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• Born in Detroit on June 11th, 1934.• Uelsmann received his BFA at Rochester
Institute 1957.• He began teaching photography at the
University of Florida in 1960.• He became a graduate research of art at the
University in 1974.• He is now retired from teaching and living in
Gainesville, Florida.
Jerry Uelsmann
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Untitled, 1982Jerry Uelsmann
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Jerry UelsmanDreamtheather, 2004
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Lucas Samaras• Born in Macedonia, Greece, in 1936.• Graduated from Rutgers University in 1959
with a degree in art.• He studied a form of ‘performance art’ with
artists such as Robert Whitman, and George Segal.
• He is well known for his pioneering work in photography.
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“Photo Transformation”
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The Link• Both photographers were part of a movement
going against the boundaries of traditional art. • In this time period, their photography was
very avant-garde and fresh to the public. • They were also some of the first
photographers to manipulate their photographs drastically, and take their photography to the next level.
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Yousuf Karsh, 1948 Albert Einstein
Comparison
Self Portrait, 1973Lucas Samaras
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• Lucas Samaras’ goal in his photography was essentially to distinguish the similarities between the human figure and objects.
• Samaras does a great deal of “self investigation” or self exposure.
• Through this self exposure came his “photo transformations” which he believed created an abstraction of form and color.
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“Exposing myself, visually or psychologically exposing through art, or some kind of artifice or control or device like art, it was done in a professional way. Others object, but if it is done professionally, it will get the job done.”
- Samaras
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“Photo Transformations”Lucas Samaras
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• Samaras wanted to take something people would find insulting and turn it into a virtue.
• He wanted to be, along with his artwork, unpredictable; rather shocking.
Lucas SamarasUntitled 1965
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• Uelsmann on the other hand focused on creativity, created a “reality that transcends surface reality”.
• His goal was to create a dream-like world, passing the limits of traditional photography and discovering a surreal world beyond reality.
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“A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people. For me to walk around the block where I live could take five minutes. But when I have a camera, it could take five hours. You just engage in the world differently.” - Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann“The Dreary Room”
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Influences• Samaras and Uelsmann were both
influenced by the Dada / Surrealism movement.
• Artists such as Man Ray and Salvador Dali played important roles in both photographers artwork.
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Jerry Uelsmann
Salvador Dali“Galatea of the Spheres”
“Persistence of Memory”