Jerry Uelsmann
[Photographer, b. 1934, Detroit, Michigan, lives in Gainesville, Florida.]
Let us not be afraid to allow for “post-visualization.” By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.
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I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
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Photography is just light remembering itself.
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The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
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The goal of the artist is not to resolve life’s mysteries, but to deepen them.
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I’m really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
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I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn’t any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
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The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality.
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