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A black and white composite photograph of dark, rippling water reflecting light. A silhouetted figure stands left. A glowing nine-pane window floats amid swirling clouds in the center. A white bird flies in the dark upper right corner.
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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)
Date1985
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet: 16 x 19 3/4 in. (40.6 x 50.2 cm)
image: 15 1/2 x 18 1/2 in. (39.4 x 47 cm)
mat: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1997.29.82
Collections
Visual DescriptionA black and white composite photograph of dark, rippling water reflecting light. A silhouetted figure stands left. A glowing nine-pane window floats amid swirling clouds in the center. A white bird flies in the dark upper right corner.
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1993
A black and white composite photograph of a beach. Two large footprints mark the foreground sand. In the distance, a silhouetted figure walks on the ocean in a bright sunlit reflection. Above, a bird flies against sunbeams piercing through dark clouds.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1985
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1980
A black and white composite photograph. in the foreground is a thick chain rests in a grassy field. In the middle distance, a figure stands on a cliff edge overlooking water. The sky resembles a rippled water surface where a glowing human figure floats among sparkling lights.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1980
Black and white composite photograph. A small human figure runs along the bottom left. Thin, dark, ink-like tendrils rise upwards through a cloudy, swirling background. A large dark circle floats in the upper right corner.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1994
A black and white composite photograph. A pair of dark shoes float above a reflective hardwood floor. Behind, an illuminated, multi-paned dormer window is surrounded by billowing clouds and bright, radiating sunbeams.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1992
A black and white composite photograph of a massive dark boulder resting on a rocky expanse. A tiny silhouetted figure stands beside it. A deep, jagged crevice dominates the foreground, under a sky filled with textured, puffy clouds.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1992
A black-and-white composite photograph. Two pine trees stand left; silhouetted people gather at a stone wall right. Thin, wispy shapes float in the sky above. The foreground terrain dissolves into a swirling, textured cloud mass.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1975
A black and white composite photograph of a river with swirling, foamy water in the foreground. Large, smooth boulders sit on the right. In the upper left, a silhouetted figure stands in the water before a cascading waterfall.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1989
A black and white composite photograph of a large, open hand facing upward. A smaller hand rests emerges from an opening it its palm. The upper portion depicts dark, shallow water covering smooth stones, with bright, blurred light reflecting across the surface.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1988
A black and white composite photograph of a prominent granite mountain dome rising in the distance. Thick, dark, swirling clouds dominate the foreground, illuminated by a bright light bursting through their center. Scattered clouds dot the bright sky above.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1992
A black and white composite photograph of a dark, mossy forest. Bright, gridded window panes hover among the trees, partially framing a dark human silhouette. In the foreground, jagged white lines radiate from beneath a small palmetto plant.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1978

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