tinue to create his seamless enigmatic spaces. Bal-
ancing a schedule of lectures and workshops from
his home in Gainesville, Florida, Uelsmann contin-
ued to produce books and exhibit new work
around the world.
SusanTodd-RaqueSeealso:Coke, Van Deren; Manipulation; Multiple
Exposures and Printing; Photography in the United
States: the South; Sandwiched Negatives; Surreal-
ism; White, Minor
Biography
Born Jerry Norman Uelsmann in Detroit, Michigan, 11 June
- Studied under Minor White and Ralph Hattersley
and received B.F.A. in photography from Rochester Insti-
tute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1957; M.S. in
audiovisual communications from University of Indiana–
Bloomington, 1958; M.F.A. in photography, under Henry
Holmes Smith, from University of Indiana–Bloomington, - Instructor in Department of Art, University of Flor-
ida–Gainesville from 1960–1969, became Professor of Art,
1969–1974, then Graduate Research Professor from 1974
until 1997 when he retired. Founding member of the
Society for Photographic Education, 1962; Visiting Pro-
fessor, Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, October - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship,
1967; National Endowment for the Arts, Pho tography,
1973; Selected as a Fellow of the Royal Photographic
Society of Great Britain, 1973; Teacher/Scholar of the
Year Award, 1975, University of Florida; Photographer
of the Year with Friends of Photography, 1984; Photo-
grapher Award for Outstanding Achievement by the
Photographic Society of Japan in 1989; Distinguished
Teaching of Art Award from College Art Association, - Lives with his wife, photographer Maggie Taylor,
in Gainesville, Florida.
Individual Exhibitions
1960 Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana
1961 University of Florida; Gainesville, Florida Illinois Insti-
tute of Technology; Chicago, Illinois
1962 School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana
1963 Kalamazoo Art Institute; Kalamazoo, Michigan
Jacksonville Art Museum; Jacksonville, Florida
3 Photographers; George Eastman House, Rochester,
New York
1964 Arizona State University; Tempe, Arizona
1965 University of South Florida; Tampa, Florida
1966 Pratt Institute; Brooklyn, New York
Lowe Art Gallery; University of Miami, Miami, Florida
1967 Museum of Modern Art; New York, New York, and
traveling
1968 Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Minneapolis, Minnesota
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota,
Florida, and traveling
Refocus; University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Creative Photography Gallery; Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1969 Friends of Photography; Carmel, California
1970 Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, and traveling
George Eastman House; Rochester, New York, and
traveling
1972 Photographs by Jerry N. Uelsmann; Art Institute of Chi-
cago, Chicago, Illinois
1974 Centre Culturel Americain; Paris, France, and traveling
1976 Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizo-
na, Tucson, Arizona
1977 Jerry N. Uelsmann, Retrospective; San Francisco Mu-
seum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1978 Photographers Gallery; South Yarra, Victoria, Australia
1979 Nihon University Gallery; Tokyo, Japan
1982 Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizo-
na, Tucson, Arizona
1983 Des Moines Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa
Center for Creative Photography; University of Ari-
zona, Tucson, Arizona
1984 International Museum of Photography and Film; Geor-
ge Eastman House, Rochester, New York, and traveling
1988 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; Winston-
Salem, North Carolina
Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, New York
1992 Joslyn Art Museum; Omaha, Nebraska
1995 United States Information Services; Calcutta, India, and
traveling
1999 InVisible Sight: The Art of Jerry Uelsmann; University
Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FloridaGroup Exhibitions
1959 Photography at Mid-Century; George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York
1964 Jerry Uelsmann and Wynn Bullock; Heliography Gal-
lery, New York, New York
1967 Photography in the Twentieth Century; George Eastman
House, Rochester, New York, with the National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, and traveling
The Persistence of Vision; George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York
1969 The Photograph as Object 1843–1969; National Gal-
lery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, and traveling
1970 Into the Seventies; Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
1972 4 Directions in Modern Photography: Paul Caponigro,
John T. Hill, Jerry Uelsmann, Bruce Davidson; Yale Uni-
versity Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1974 Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Ameri-
can Art, New York, New York
1975 The Land: 20thCentury Landscape Photographs Selected
by Bill Brandt; Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
England, and traveling
1978 Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and
traveling
1981 Counterpoints: Form and Emotion in Photographs; Me-
tropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, and
traveling
1985 American Images 1945–1980;BarbicanArtGallery,
London, England, and travelingUELSMANN, JERRY