Outside In: The Transformative Vision of Jerry Uelsmann is a poetic intersection between two artistic mediums: photography and video. Features of the DVD: documentary (30 min.), over 70 photographs, biographies of the artists, music by composer Eric Chapelle. High Definition available in 2007. NTSC, HDV Color/ B&W, 16x9 ratio, stereo.
Jerry Uelsmann:
Since the 1960s, Jerry Uelsmann has been recognized as a leading figure in 20th century photography. He is a master of the photographic montage technique, which like poetry, focuses upon unlikely or non-evident realities that coalesce as a unique vision. Uelsmann’s ‘palette’ of fine art, the natural landscape, the human figure, and found objects are combined anew within worlds of his own making. His photography has been the subject of over 100 exhibitions worldwide, and is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Chicago Art Institute; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Daniel Reeves:
Daniel Reeves’ videos and new media works (1979 to the present) constitute an important contribution to the art of video poetics. Reeves’ elegant realizations employ poetic text and structure in addressing issues of inhumanity, and the problems of violence and dispossession. Based upon his experiences as a young Marine in the Vietnam war, Smothering Dreams, a video classic, won 3 Emmy Awards. His work has been broadcast and exhibited internationally at Documenta 7 Kassel, Germany, the Museum of Modern Art, The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, among others.