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I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

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Jerry Uelsmann
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 11
Photographer
Detroit
Michigan
Jerry N. Uelsmann
Jerry Norman Uelsmann
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