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The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

Jerry Uelsmann

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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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Photography
Creative
Process
Sustain
Celebration
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I'm really very concerned with helping to create an attitude of freedom and daring toward the craft of photography.
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It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.
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I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.
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Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process.
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When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.
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The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality
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The camera basically is a license to explore.
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My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.
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The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
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I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.
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All knowledge is self-reflective.
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Of course, in order to make art, the frustration of not working has to be greater than the frustration of working.
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The truth is that one is more frequently blessed with ideas while working.
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