This document discusses three experimental photographers - Alison Scarpulla, Evan Sharboneua, and Jerry Uelsmann - and their techniques. Alison Scarpulla creates mysterious double exposures and uses expired film. Evan Sharboneua uses photo manipulation software to combine 170 photos of a room with money to make $871 appear like millions. Jerry Uelsmann, one of the pioneers of photo manipulation, prefers traditional darkroom techniques and creates surreal black and white images by combining multiple photos.

1. Experimental photographers
By Henry Paul

2. This photograph is by Alison Scarpulla.
She makes experimental images that
are usually formed through double
exposures and various other methods
that she carries out in dark rooms. She
uses de-saturated colours and grainy
expired film to add some mystery to
her works. She is currently in her early
20’s and is still making and coming up
with new things all the time. This is a
contemporary piece of work and uses
non traditional methods.
This photo was taken using double exposure. This is where two images are combined, either
directly on the film or in a dark room. If it was taken directly on the film then the procedure is
quite simple. One image is taken and then another directly over the first image. If it were made
in a dark room the the two images would be combined by being overlapped. Then a light would
be shone through the two images to create the double exposed image. There is another way to
create double exposure images and this is most likely the way that “Scarpulla” did it based on
the fact that she is a modern photographer. You can use Photoshop to combine the photos. This
gives you a lot more freedom and choice with what happens within the image. There are a few
steps you have to carry out within the program itself and you can come out with very
professional looking pieces if used correctly.
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3. This is a photograph by
a photographer called
Evan Sharboneua. He is
a young photographer
in his 20’s. He uses
photo manipulation
software to create
interesting images. This
appears to be a
photograph of a large
amount of money on
almost every surface
possible. It was actually
created using only a
small amount of money
compared to what you
can see. He used a sum
of $871 and managed to
make it look like
millions.
The image itself is
called “A room
filled with an
obnoxious amount
of money”. This
name is well suited
and makes the
point that it would
be very difficult to
get this amount of
money together in
one place. The fact
that you can use
this simple
technique to create
a powerful effect is
why the image was
created. A lot of his
images tend to be
professionally
edited pieces.
To create this image he spent 4 hours taking multiple images of the room. He photographed the room 170
times with the money placed in different locations. The camera would stay in the same location. He then
spent 5 hours merging all the photographs together in Photoshop. The image you are left with is a
competent and professional example of what Photoshop can be used for. This is a non traditional,
contemporary piece that uses all modern methods to create the desired effect.

4. This image was created by one of the most iconic
people in photo manipulation. It was created by a
man called Jerry Uelsmann. He has worked with
image manipulation since the late 1950’s. He is
considered to be one of the forerunners for photo
manipulation and yet he still sticks to using a dark
room for creating all of his pieces. He prefers the
traditional methods to modern methods. This is
quite a historic photo as it was taken in the 1960’s.
He was one of the first people to make photo
editing a fully fledge form of art. It was slightly
frowned upon by the art community before people
like ‘Uelsmann’. It uses quite traditional methods
that were very new when they were originally
done. He creates predominantly black and white
images that always seem to have some kind of
mystery behind them.
To create this photo he will have used multiple starting images. The wings on the person will
be an image. The person will be a separate image as well as the birds. Even the water trail at
the front was most likely a different image. He had 8 enlargers in his dark room so could
combine a large amount of photos. He managed to create some very artistic things with the
resources available to him. Now with modern computer programs like Photoshop, there are
loads of Jerry Uelsmann’s. When he first created images like this there where only a couple
of ways to do it and not many people would have the facilities to do so.