Long before digital cameras or Adobe Photoshop was ever developed, multi-layered imagery was being created by Jerry Uelsmann (born 1934), who is best known for his seamlessly composited images in black and white. His photographs combine several negatives in the darkroom using multiple negatives in multiple enlargers to create surreal landscapes that interweave images of human figures, rocks, trees, and water, in new and unexpected compositions.
Diptych and triptych come from the Greek meaning two (dip) or three (trip) fold (tych). These terms originally referred to a work of art that was divided into sections and hinged together, but have come to be known as images designed to be displayed together and are a brilliant tool for photographic storytelling. They present two or three images which can be from the same session or they can be polar opposites to show opposition or contrasting ideas.
(above) untitled (known as Floating Tree) by Jerry Uelsmann, 1969
(above) untitled (known as The Philosopher's Desk) by Jerry Uelsmann, 1976
(above) untitled, by Jerry Uelsmann, 1997
(above) Eclipse by Jerry Uelsmann, 2011
(above) Calla Lily diptych by Patricia Strand
(above) diptych portrait of Francis Bacon by Harry Benson, 1975
(above) diptych portrait of artist Zakir Huseynov by Sana Aleskerov, 1998
(above) Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klan diptych from the series "Created Equal" by Mark Laita
(above) Marine and war veteran diptych from the series "Created Equal" by Mark Laita
(above) "Who Sees" by Andrew Bartram, 2015
(above) triptych from Olympus Pen camera by Lost Aruban
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