The Sandwhich Man: Jerry Uelsmann

Although Uelsmann’s technique is considered sandwiching, that’s not his technique at all. Instead of taking two or more negatives and sandwiching them together, Uelsmann uses numerous enlargers with one negative each to accomplish his artistic prints. While taking pictures, Uelsmann takes into consideration all possible variables surrounding his objects and forms, such as the size and difference between the subjects, whether or not he will need

What you see is what is real, what you see is what is there. Uelsmann takes everyday elements, objects, and forms and interplays them with one another to allow us to separate our everyday environment. Never has any artistic work captured my attention the way Jerry Uelsmann’s prints have. One is able to loose themselves in one of his prints, examining every detail, and creating one’s own interpretation of the elements involved.

With Uelsmann’s artistic prints we are lead beyond the reality as we know it, and taken into a different dimension of time. For myself, some of Uelsmann’s images lead me to a spiritual space not seen with the naked eye. Take for example his 1987 print. At the top of the print is the sky with a bright light in the center, the sun that is representative of life. In the middle and center is a large pair of God like hands, breaking open what could be perceived as the seed of humanity. Out pours the ocean along with a white silhouette, which could be suggestive of the soul of humanity. With this particular print it appears Uelsmann used fou

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