This House is Not For Sale, the 14th studio album from Grammy Award–winning band Bon Jovi, features a cover image by Jerry Uelsmann, a Florida Artists Hall of Fame inductee, University of Florida professor emeritus and author of multiple books, including Uelsmann Untitled: A Retrospective published by the University Press of Florida. The album releases November 4th and the band is scheduled to tour two Florida cities in February 2017.
A photomontage Uelsmann created in 1982, the black-and-white image of a house with tree roots inspired frontman Jon Bon Jovi. “That picture told our story … now it’s our album cover,” he says. The image appears in Uelsmann’s 2014 book, Uelsmann Untitled, which features the largest number of Uelsmann images ever collected in a single volume. Drawn from his entire career, they show both the evolution of his technique and the solidity of his vision.
Acclaimed as an international master of photomontage and widely known as a forefather of the digitally manipulated image, Uelsmann maintains strict adherence to analog tools, crafting his images by integrating multiple negatives. Uelsmann’s work has been exhibited in more than 100 individual shows in the United States and abroad, and his photographs are in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain and a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education. In 2012 the University of Florida, where Ueslmann taught from 1960 to 1998, awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, and he was the 2015 Honoree in the Achievement in Fine Arts category of the Lucie Awards, honoring the greatest achievements in photography.
Bon Jovi is scheduled to play at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida on February 12th and at the Amalie Arena in Tampa on February 14th.
