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Landscape with house, armchair, and eye graphic.
Eye Chair
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Eye Chair

Artist Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022)
Date1969
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet/image: 11 1/2 x 10 5/8 in. (29.2 x 27 cm)
board: 19 5/8 x 15 3/4 in. (49.8 x 40 cm)
mat: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1997.29.16
Collections
Visual DescriptionLandscape with house, armchair, and eye graphic.
Eye-Chair
Eye-Chair
Jerry Uelsmann
1969
A black and white composite photograph of a cloth-draped armchair sitting against a rough rock wall beside a dark window frame through which the Statue of Liberty is visible. To the right, a dirt path lined with bare trees curves away into the distance beneath a pale sky.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1988
A black and white composite photograph with an image framed by the silhouette of two cupped hands. Inside, a small nude figure stands in a foreground of thick clouds, facing away toward a large wooden house surrounded by bare trees.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1989
House with daguerreotype of a man and woman in case in foreground
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1969-1972
Tree floating above lakeside house.
Poet's House
Jerry Uelsmann
1965
Face of figurative sculpture in foreground, house in background.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1964
A black and white composite photograph of a face partially obscured by multiple overlapping hands covering the eyes and forehead. The figure is surrounded by heavily crumpled, textured material with strong, contrasting shadows.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1987
Black and white composite photograph. Above, bare trees line a flat field with a small distant figure. Below, a wooden floor features a secured trapdoor. A single, large human eye is visible on the surface of the trapdoor.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1994
Black and white composite photograph. Against a dark background, a stylized stone sculpture with carved ribs stands on the left. On the right, a person's face with closed eyes is partially covered by four overlapping hands.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1994
Negative landscape with figure, floating rock (positive).
Apocalypse I
Jerry Uelsmann
1967
A black-and-white composite photograph showing an upside-down rocky mountain landscape over a white area. Below, a man stands behind a ruined dark structure, his upper body visible over the edge and his legs seen through a lower window.
Self-Portrait, Leadville, Colorado
Jerry Uelsmann
1969
A black-and-white composite photograph of a dark landscape scattered with pale, twisting dead tree branches. In the foreground rests a large, speckled oval boulder featuring a deep, smooth indentation shaped like a curled, nude human torso.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1977

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