Apocalypse II
Jerry Uelsmann
Audio
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Year
1967
Dimensions
11 x 13”
Medium
silver gelatin print
Description
American photographer Jerry Uelsmann created Apocalypse 2 in 1967, the year he won a Guggenheim Fellowship for his innovative darkroom work from which surreal composite landscapes like this emerged. Here, Uelsmann conjures Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic novel On the Beach (1957) and T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which includes the lines: In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speech Gathered on this beach of the tumid river.