Jerry Uelsmann - Chronology Through 1985

Chronology Through 1985

• 1934' - Born in Detroit, Michigan.
• 1948 – after attending public schools, develops an interest in photography at age 14.
• 1955-1960 – Attends Rochester Institute of Technology (B.F.A., M.A.) and Indiana University (M.F.A.). Inspired and influenced by teachers Minor White, Ralph Hattersly, and Henry Holmes Smith.
• 1960-1966 – Join faculty of Department of Art, University of Florida, as Instructor of Art, at invitation of Can Deren Coke. Founding member and elected to Board of Directors of the National Society for Photographic Education.
• 1967-1970 – One-man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Receives Guggenheim Fellowship. Conducts workshops and delivers lectures throughout the United States at major universities and art institutions. Promoted to Professor of Art, University of Florida. Cited for outstanding contributions to photography by the American Society of Magazine Photographers. Portfolio of work presented in major U.S. and European publications. First retrospective exhibition, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Complete issue of Aperture (15:4) devoted to his work, with essay by Peter C. Bunnell.
• 1971-1973 – Invited to deliver fourth Bertram Cox Memorial Lecture, entitled “Some Humanistic Considerations of Photography,” at the Royal Public Society, London. Continues to lecture and give workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Limited-edition portfolio of photographs issued by the Witkin Gallery, New York. Made Fellow of Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Participates as one of several featured artists at fourth Recontres Unternationales de la Photographie in Arles, France.
• 1974-1977 – Appointed Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida. Receives Certificate of Merit from the Society of Publication Designers and Certificate of Excellence from American Institute of Graphic Arts, both for contributions to The New York Times. Publication of first monograph on his work, Silver Meditations, Introduction by Peter C. Bunned. Work included in international exhibitions at more than a half-dozen commercial galleries and at an equal number of major museums and art centers, including a 225-print retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
• 1978-1981 – Receives a Bronze Medal at 19th Zagreb Salon, International Exhibition of Photography held in Yugoslavia. Included in major national and international exhibitions, including Mirrors and Windows (Museum of Modern Art, New York) and group shows in Holland, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Honered as Visiting Professor, Nihon University, College of Art, Tokyo. Named one of top ten most collected photographers, preceded only by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, and Lewis Hine, in a report by American Photographer.
• 1982 – Jerry N. Uelsmann: Twenty-Five Years: a Retrospective is published.
• 1985 – Uelsmann publishes Process and Perception, where he uncovers his creative process from negative, to print.