Untitled
Artist/Maker
Jerry N. Uelsmann
(American, born 1934)
CultureAmerican
Date1982
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 14 7/8 × 17 11/16 in. (37.8 × 44.9 cm)
Overall, Support: 15 3/4 × 20 3/4 in. (40 × 52.7 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Overall, Support: 15 3/4 × 20 3/4 in. (40 × 52.7 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number87.401
On View
Not on viewLabel TextJerry N. Uelsmann American, b. 1934 Untitled, 1982 Gelatin silver print (photograph) The outside comes inside in Jerry Uelsmann’s surrealist vision of a Victorian reading room overgrown with ivy. An open book at the secretary and an inviting chaise lounge suggest ways of entering his dreamlike world while the resting face superimposed onto a globe may symbolize the reaches of one’s imagination. Uelsmann explores the relationship between natural and manmade worlds by combining negatives in a darkroom. He photographs widely, with no preconceived ideas about his final images, and then looks for connections where natural and human subjects come into dialogue, as seen here in the patterning of the rug and the ivy. Museum purchase 87.401 Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years of Photography at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; September 11, 1993-March 6, 1994. "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 25, 2004. "New Light on Land: Photographs from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, January 28 - May 15, 2016.
