Discovery in photography can also take place after the shutter is snapped. The picture above was done largely with scissors and paste pot-and a keen eye for design. Beginning with 3Smm frames of a nude, Ray Metzker cut prints into small rectangular chips and assembled them into a vibrant, flickering pattern.
To create the photomontage at right, Jerry Uelsmann took three shots; he placed each negative in a separate enlarger, blended images by moving a single piece of printing paper from one to the other, then reversed some of the images and produced halo effects. Uelsmann has called the darkroom "in the truest sense, a visual research lab .... [One can] revisualize the final image at any point. ... It has been and will always be alchemy."
Ray Metzker
JERRY UELSMANN = Small Woods Where I Met Myself, 1967
Konrad Wyrebek
Konrad Wyrebek
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