Video: The surreal world of Jerry Wellesman's photo collages
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
77-year-old American Jerry Welsman began to combine reality and the world of dreams in his works more than 50 years ago. The talented photographer's surreal collages conquered the world when Photoshop was not yet in the project. However, even now the author of unusual works remains faithful to his own technique and believes that miracles are happening in a darkened darkroom.
For Jerry Uelsmann, photography was originally just a hobby. In high school, he moonlighted as an assistant to a wedding photographer: he reloaded the film, carried a tripod and was always on hand. And already at the institute Jerry entered consciously to become a portrait photographer. And he would have, but, thank God, everything started spinning, and the old dream went to hell.
At the university, the young man was first told that photography is a powerful means of self-expression. Prior to that, Jerry believed that the pictures are important primarily for those in the frame, and not for the one who is hiding on the other side of the lens. In principle, at that time this opinion was shared by many: people saw in photography primarily a craft, not an art.
Jerry Welsman created his first collage back in the late 50s and soon became seriously involved. The fact is that he was often not satisfied with what he managed to shoot. Hundreds of shots were sent to the basket, and Jerry Welsman, like a choosy Gogol maiden of marriageable age, who dreamed of what would happen “if Nikanor Ivanovich’s lips were put to Ivan Kuzmich’s nose,” was looking for a solution to the problem. And, of course, I found it in photo collages.
True, in the 60s, photographs in a realistic manner, created without the use of filters and other gadgets, were welcomed, because photography is not painting for you. And suddenly - collage paintings! When Jerry Welsman first brought his works to New York, they looked at them with pleasure and said: "Very interesting, but what does photography have to do with it?"
It's been almost 10 years since Jerry Welsman first started creating his own surreal world - and here's a really big hit. He now compares the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art with the blessing of the Pope: she opened all the doors for him.
Now Jerry Welsman has enough insignia (for example, he is a member of the British Royal Photographic Society), behind him 38 years of teaching experience. His motto: "There are no uninteresting things - there are people who are not interested."
Jerry Welsman is very strict with himself. He creates about a hundred collages per year. At the end of the "reporting period", having reviewed all of them, the master selects the top ten successful ones. The process of creating one surreal photographic work still takes him 8 to 10 hours of labor.
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