Jerry N. Uelsmann

American, born 1934

BiographyBorn in Detroit on June 11,1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his B.F.A. degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his M.S. and M.F.A. at Indiana University in 1960. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960 ("my first job offer"). He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville, Florida.

Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of The Society of Photographic Education and a trustee of the Friends of Photography.

Uelsmann's work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad over the past thirty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the International Museum of Photography at the G eorge Eastman House, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.

The following monographs on his work have been published: (Please see the Books & Writings section for ordering information.)

Jerry N. Uelsmann (Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1970)

John L. Ward, The Criticism of Photography as Art: The Photographs of Jerry Uelsmann (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1970)

Jerry Uelsmann: Silver Meditations (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, 1975)

Jerry N. Uelsmann: Photography from 1975-79 (Chicago: Columbia College, 1980)

Jerry N. Uelsmann - Twenty-five Years: A Retrospective (Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982

Uelsmann: Process and Perception (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,1985)

Uelsmann/Yosemite (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996)

Museum Studies (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1999)

Approaching the Shadow (Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000)

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