Another great afternoon during the trip in Taipei, visit to Jerry N. Uelsmann's great photography works at Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Jerry Uelsmann is a radical surrealist photographer who famed in the US in 1960s. He is well known as “image magician” and “black and white alchemist”. His ideas were fermenting during his study life in university. That one should not just photograph the object themselves, but should show the world beyond the objects was particularly influential to him.
Uelsmann proposed the concept of “post-visualization” in 1965, which creating a photographic aesthetic that applies after the camera images are taken. Use mainly traditional darkroom techniques, he uses several enlargers to combine different negatives film into a single picture by means of masking light and partial exposure, also using exquisite skill to create an artistic image out of photo montage in a hand-made ways. He discovers the mystery and surprise of recreating images during this process, freeing photography from the shackles of “representation of the real world”."Untitled" (1992), This particular Uelsmann's piece come with some deep thoughts and meanings. The top part of the picture shown a dry old tree with no leaves, representing the reality; the lower part represent the reflection of the reality, some sort of idealism, showing the same place with vegetated and lively landscape.
Uelsmann’s works stimulate my imagination and amazement while enter to strange space and atmosphere of the visuals.
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