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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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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

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Artist Jerry Uelsmann (American, 1934 - 2022)
Date1988
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet: 13 7/8 x 11 in. (35.2 x 27.9 cm)
image: 13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm)
mat: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Melvin and Lorna Rubin
Object number1997.29.98
Collections
Visual DescriptionA 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.
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1983
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1989
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1971
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1977
A black and white composite photograph showing a deep, pitch-black trench dividing rows of concrete blocks. A smooth, glowing sphere rests within the dark foreground void. In the background is a large hill, piles of gravel, and a cloudy sky.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A black and white composite photograph of a beach scene. A solid black cube rests on the sand in the foreground. A large, smooth, shaded sphere hovers in the sky above the ocean horizon. Three small, distant silhouetted figures are visible near and in the water.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A black and white composite photograph. A solid black cube rests on rippling, shallow water in the foreground. The water abruptly merges into a paved plaza where a figure ascends a wide staircase toward a towering, ornate Gothic cathedral with tall spires.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1980
A black-and-white composite photograph showing large, speckled hands loosely cupping a smooth, dark sphere. A thin stem connects the sphere to a horizon line. Below, the foreground is a field of coarse grass surrounding a rough, shallow crater.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1968
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.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1979
A black and white composite photograph of four interlaced hands gathered in the foreground. In the background, a dark mountain range stretches under a cloudy sky. Four uneven stones float in a line in mid-air above the distant peaks.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1989
A black and white composite photograph of a row of bare trees in an open field. In the foreground, a rectangular portrait of a woman wearing a ruffled collar rests on the ground, illuminated by patches of dappled sunlight.
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Jerry Uelsmann
1992
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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Jerry Uelsmann
1990

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