2017 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Jerry Uelsmann

Saturday, March 11, 2017 @ 6:00pm, Orange Ballroom

Saturday Evening Guest Speaker, Jerry Uelsmann

Jerry N. Uelsmann (b. 1934) is a founding member of SPE. He received his BFA degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1957) where he studied with other SPE founding members, Minor White and Ralph Hattersley, Jr.; and MS and MFA degrees from Indiana University (1960) where he studied with SPE founding member Henry Holmes Smith. He began teaching photography at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1960, as he says, "my first job offer." He became a graduate research professor of art at the University in 1974, and is now retired from teaching. He lives in Gainesville and continues to spend his time in the darkroom with a dozen enlargers.

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 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 over the past thirty years. His photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Chicago Art Institute, the George Eastman Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Bibliotheque National in Paris, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Center for Creative Photography, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.