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Date

1971

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Culture

American

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

"I am involved with a kind of reality that transcends surface reality," Uelsmann once noted. "More than physical reality, it is emotional, irrational, intellectual, and psychological." Employing a complex technique of photomontage, Uelsmann combines multiple negatives garnered from the natural world to achieve an evocative artistic statement. Here a beach landscape, overlaid surreally with hands and an interior scene, becomes a subject for the contemplation of artistic discovery rather than of natural beauty.

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