This document summarizes information about three photographers - Jerry Uelsmann, David Hockney, and Ritianne Muscat: Jerry Uelsmann is a 20th century American photographer known for his photomontages. He creates surreal black and white images by combining multiple photographs in the darkroom. David Hockney is an influential 20th century British artist who pioneered the use of photomontages. He would take multiple Polaroid photos and arrange them to create large composite images. Ritianne Muscat is a contemporary experimental photographer from Malta who creates surreal images. She has had over 10 exhibitions across Europe and Asia and her work is presented in galleries,

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2. Jerry Uelsmann
Uelsmanns’ work is Historical and Contemporary
He is a master of the photomontage and is known this
from the 20th century.
Uelsmann is a strong believer of Post visualisation, which
is being able to picture what the end image will look like
before actually getting it.
He has being pushing the boundaries of the photographic
medium for over 40 years.
Uelsmann is traditional because the techniques he uses
include dark rooms - he uses them for various different
things, like the image to the right, he takes a photograph
of open hands and various other images like floating
trees, clouds and reflections to incorporate them into
one. Most of his photograph is black and white.
Uelsmann says he runs through at least 50 sheets a day
whilst he is in the darkroom and only keeps about 2
images a day from this and overall about 10% of his work
a year actually means something to him.
His work will be displayed as Art Photography so will be
shown in galleries and books he brings out.
Untitled, 1999
Untitled, 1993

3. David Hockney
Hockney’s work is Contemporary and Traditional
Hockney was born July 9th 1937. Hockney an English painter,
draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer as well as a
photographer. He is well known for his photomontages that he
called ‘joiners’ the technique is well known as a Hockney joiner
because of this. David himself is considered as the most
influential British artist of the 20th century.
Hockney used Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm,
commercially-processed color prints. He arranged his ‘patchwork’
to create one full large image.
Creation of the joiners actually happened accidentally when other
photographers were using wide lenses he didn’t like this. But
when he needed to capture a large amount of the shot he took a
lot of pictures and glued them together. After this he decided it
looked good and thought it created a narrative. Hockney left
painting for a while and experimented with this technique.
Hockney created the photomontages on the right. By doing this
he did it traditionally, he took the photographs, usually with a
Polaroid and them printed them and placed them together,
usually so they look rather distorted, the outcomes were surreal.
Hockney work is Art photography and will be presented in
photography books-such as his own and galleries.

4. Ritianne Muscat
• Muscats work is contemporary
Ritianne Muscat was born in 1990 and is from Malta she
is known known as Ritty Tacsum and is a largely
self-taught experimental photographer. She likes
very surreal and unusual images.Having started a
course at MCAST, she quickly felt the confines of
the educational system stifling her creativity and
sought to explore and expand her horizons solo. In
the 4 years she has been working as a freelance
photographer, specialising in artistic and
experimental work, she has had her work published
in several local and foreign magazines. Her debut
exhibition at St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity
marked an important milestone in her career,
featuring a collection of 18 portraits.
• Ritty Tacsum has had over 10 exhibitions, in Europe
and in the Asia. She is currently working on 2
exhibitions for 2014.
• Tacsum’s work would be presented in gallaires,
exhibitions, photography books worldwide.