What are the characteristics of Jerry Youseman's photographs?

American photographer JerryUelsman (1934 ~) was born in Detroit, 1957 graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, and 1960 received a master's degree from Indiana University. After that, he taught at the University of Florida, and 65438-0974 became the graduate guidance professor of this university.

Uthman is good at making darkroom stunts and is called "the magician of images". His photographic works are characterized by amazing, unusual and mysterious images, full of imagination and creativity.

From 1960, Useman began to focus on the practice of synthesizing images. He called his creative method "the discovery of illusion effect". When he is creating, he always shoots a large number of ordinary images such as rocks, oceans, sky, trees and portraits in advance, and then skillfully superimposes the images on several different negatives of the same picture through multiple magnifying glasses in the darkroom.

Uthman's works have a strong surrealist style. It changes the normal relationship between space and proportion, produces the absurd effect of symbol, deformation, exaggeration and abstraction, and reflects the inner essence of modern life. For example, his work Symbolic Mutation, written in 196 1, superimposed a man's fist and a woman's sad face, revealing the roots of many family tragedies.

Youseman once described his creation like this:

Although the darkroom can isolate me from the outside world, my activities in the darkroom are inextricably linked with everything in the outside universe. In the darkroom, I can calm down and have an inner conversation, combining the images I took outside with my inner thoughts. For me, the work in the darkroom is not only technical, but also an artistic creation.

From 65438 to 0967, Youseman won the "Guggenheim Prize" for his thesis "Multiple Exposure and Magnification Techniques in Photography", becoming the first photographer in the history of American photography to win this honor for his academic research. His works have held more than 100 solo exhibitions around the world and have been permanently collected by many museums.