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Landscape with schoolhouse, rocks, window shadows, leaves.
The Wedding
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

The Wedding

Artist Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022)
Date1978
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet/image: 12 7/8 x 9 3/4 in. (32.7 x 24.8 cm)
board: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1997.29.37
Collections
Visual DescriptionLandscape with schoolhouse, rocks, window shadows, leaves.
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
A black-and-white composite photograph. The top half features dark, silhouetted trees draped in hanging moss. Below, a smooth, tightly curled human figure rests within swirling white foam among jagged dark rocks.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1971
Magritte's Touchstone
Magritte's Touchstone
Jerry Uelsmann
1965
A black and white composite photograph looking down a hallway framed by open doors toward closed glass-paned double doors and an arched window. A seagull flies outside the left pane. A dark shadow of the flying bird falls on the patterned floor.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1980
Untitled
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1971-1972
A black and white composite photograph of a white door and multi-paned windows with an arched top on a rugged rock face. Pine trees grow atop the stone formation and in the background beneath a pale sky.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1987
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 of a building facade with windows and a ladder reaching a dark doorway, embedded within a large rock formation in a forest. In the foreground, a negative image of a nude figure lies on a light patch of ground.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1989
A symmetrical black and white composite photograph of a dark, barren landscape filled with pale, twisting dead trees. In the center distance, branches intertwine to form an upright human silhouette. A dark, splayed infant-shaped shadow rests on the foreground dirt.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1978
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
Negative landscape with figure, floating rock (positive).
Apocalypse I
Jerry Uelsmann
1967
A black and white symmetrical image showing a path between tall, railed stone walls. A silhouetted figure stands distantly below a large, dark, floating sphere. A dark, rounded shadow lies on the path in the foreground.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1979

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