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A black-and-white composite photograph featuring a suspended, heavily punctured metal rectangular plate. A single hand hangs through a lower-left hole. Below, a blurred figure stands waist-deep in the ocean. A small lightning streak descends from the plate's bottom edge.
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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Artist Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022)
Date1990
MediumPlatinum print
Dimensionssheet: 26 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (67.9 x 55.6 cm)
image: 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
mat: 32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1997.29.5
Collections
Visual DescriptionA black-and-white composite photograph featuring a suspended, heavily punctured metal rectangular plate. A single hand hangs through a lower-left hole. Below, a blurred figure stands waist-deep in the ocean. A small lightning streak descends from the plate's bottom edge.
A black and white composite photograph showing a large, heavily textured spherical mass emerging from a beach. The foreground features wet, rippled sand and shallow tidal pools reflecting light. A cloudy sky hangs over a flat ocean horizon in the background.
Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A black and white composite photograph. The lower half displays heavily cracked and shattered concrete revealing bare dirt. The upper half features a blurred, silhouetted figure walking on a sandy beach alongside the ocean under a streaked, cloudy sky.
Jerry Uelsmann
1992
A symmetrical black and white composite photograph. A dark silhouette of a person stands waist-deep near the top. Below, a large, mirrored rock hovers centrally, flanked by dark, jagged shapes spreading outward across a textured light surface.
Jerry Uelsmann
1972
A black and white composite photograph. Two hands tear through a flat surface in the foreground. Behind them, rows of empty wooden benches recede into shadow. Above hangs a draped fabric canopy displaying a cloudy sky with a bright sunburst.
Jerry Uelsmann
1982
A black-and-white composite photograph of a house and surrounding trees entirely overgrown with dense kudzu vines. A dark human silhouette stands in the doorway. In the foreground, frothy water laps a dark shore.
Jerry Uelsmann
1982
A black-and-white composite photograph of a room with painted walls, a patterned mosaic floor, and a central daybed. A glowing cloud floats below the dark ceiling. Two faint human silhouettes appear behind a bright window.
Jerry Uelsmann
1993
A black and white composite photograph of a weathered, rectangular metal plate in front of a horizontal bar. The textured surface features dark smudges, round holes, and a four-by-four grid of black silhouettes showing a man in various distinct poses. The background is a hazy landscape.
Jerry Uelsmann
1990
Reclining female nude floating over shallow water; shoreline of ocean; flat water with a couple of breakers; clouds
Jerry Uelsmann
1986
A black-and-white composite photograph of a gated stone archway crowned with white smoke. In the paved foreground rests a smooth metallic sphere, cracked open to reveal a pair of human hands emerging from within.
Jerry Uelsmann
1983
A black-and-white composite photograph of a draped woman with a dark, barred grate over the face and a bare hand resting on her torso. Behind her, a house entirely covered in light fabric sits among trees.
Jerry Uelsmann
1991
A black and white composite photograph of a large, upright hand with a translucent nude woman superimposed over its palm and fingers. Below the hand, bright, glowing streaks of light ripple across a dark liquid surface.
Jerry Uelsmann
1989
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