Jerry Uelsmann is an American photographer known for his surreal composite photographs created by combining multiple negatives into a single print. He was influenced by his professors at Rochester Institute of Technology to experiment with photographic manipulation. After graduating college, he married Marylinn Kamischke and is renowned for pioneering photographic compositions that appear fantastical through his precise registration and overlaying of diverse images. Uelsmann revolutionized photography by crafting picturesque scenes that could not exist in reality through manual darkroom techniques.