Verve Gallery of Photography and Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd. presents a screening of Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor: This is not photography, a recently released feature length film about the photographic art of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann. The screening will take place on Saturday, April 20th, 5:30pm at Tipton Hall on the Santa Fe University of Art & Design campus.
Together, husband-and-wife Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor create haunting, layered dreamscapes that push the boundaries of photography’s possibilities. This documentary from lynda.com explores both the technical and emotional aspects of Jerry’s and Maggie’s work, from the composition to the criticism, with insight from other preeminent voices in photography.
Jerry Uelsmann
Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd. represent the work of Jerry Uelsmann, who was one of the first photographers to make photographs with multiple negatives, using up to 12 enlargers at one time to make one print.
Born in Detroit in 1934, Jerry Uelsmann received his BFA degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1957 and his MS and MFA at Indiana University in 1960. The same year he accepted his first job offer to teach photography at the University of Florida,in Gainesville. He became a graduate research professor of art at the university in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. Uelsmann lives in Gainesville with his wife, artist Maggie Taylor.
Uelsmann received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1972. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, a founding member of the Society of Photographic Education, and a former trustee of the Friends of Photography. Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Chicago Art Institute, International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Victoria and Albert Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, National Museum of American Art, Moderna Museet, National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Australia, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto).
Maggie Taylor
Verve Gallery of Photography represents Maggie Taylor. Maggie explores the use of a computer and a flatbed scanner in place of a camera. By placing objects directly on the scanner she is able to create a unique type of digital image, which keep its photographic qualities, and produces surreal, bizarre landscapes.
Maggie Taylor is an artist who lives amid the Spanish moss and live oaks at the edge of a small swamp on the outskirts of Gainesville, Florida. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1961, and moved to Florida at the age of 11. She spent her childhood watching countless hours of situation comedies and science fiction on television, later earning a Philosophy degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in Photography from the University of Florida.
Her digital composites have been widely exhibited and collected by many museums, including the Center for Creative Photography, George Eastman House, Harry Ransom Center, High Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Maggie Taylor’s work is featured in Album, Edizioni Siz, Verona, Italy, 2009; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, CA 2008; Solutions Beginning with A, Modernbook Editions, Palo Alto, CA, 2007; and Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, Adobe Press, Berkeley, CA, 2005.
Verve Gallery of Photography and Scheinbaum & Russek, Ltd. presents “Jerry Uelsmann & Maggie Taylor:This is not photography”
The screening will take place on Saturday, April 20th, 5:30pm
Tipton Hall on the Santa Fe University of Art & Design campus.
This event is free and open to the public.
Verve Gallery of Photography
219 East Marcy Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
USA
phone: 505-982-5009
fax: 505-982-9111
