James Welling: Monograph

Hugely influential among contemporary art photographers, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs for more than 35 years. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist's work to date. Since the mid-1970s, Welling's work has explored realism and transparency, abstraction and representation, optics and description, personal and cultural memory, and the material and chemical nature of photography. To date, the artist has been the subject of numerous catalogues addressing his more than 25 bodies of work. Yet no previous book has attempted to link these works and examine the primary threads that run through them all. Sumptuously produced, this volume presents a large selection of recent series, from 2000 through to the present, interspersed with important early and iconic works made in the preceding decades. James Crump, Chief Curator of the Cincinnati Art Museum contributes an extensive introductory essay. Also included are text contributions by Mark Godfrey and Thomas Seelig, plus an interview with Eva Respini, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.
James Welling has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. An earlier survey exhibition, James Welling: Photographs, 1974-1999, originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1999 he received the DG Bank-Forder Prize in Photography from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany. Solo exhibition venues include Regen Projects, Los Angeles; David Zwirner, New York; Maureen Paley, London; Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris; Wako Works of Art, Tokyo; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, and Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna. Welling is professor in the UCLA Department of Art, where he has taught for more than 15 years, and a visiting professor at Princeton University.

Author: James Welling, James Crump
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 03/31/2013
Pages: 255
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 4.20lbs
Size: 11.20h x 9.80w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781597112093

About the Author
Welling, James: - James Welling has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. An earlier survey exhibition, James Welling: Photographs, 1974-1999, originated at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 1999 he received the DG Bank-Forder Prize in Photography from the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany. Solo exhibition venues include Regen Projects, Los Angeles; David Zwirner, New York; Maureen Paley, London; Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris; Wako Works of Art, Tokyo; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, and Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna. Welling is professor in the UCLA Department of Art, where he has taught for more than 15 years, and a visiting professor at Princeton University.Crump, James: - James Crump is known internationally for his work with contemporary artists and photographers and was the chief curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Crump has organized exhibitions or published books with Doug Aitken, Richard Misrach, Nan Goldin, Ross Bleckner, Lynn Davis, and the estates of Berenice Abbott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlo Mollino, Willem de Kooning, Garry Winogrand, and Walker Evans. His most recent published works include Doug + Mike Starn: Gravity of Light (2012), Walker Evans: Decade by Decade (2010), Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin (2009), and, with Kevin Moore (ed.), Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980 (2010). In 2007 Crump wrote, produced, and directed the critically acclaimed feature documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North America at the Tribeca Film Festival and in Europe at Art Basel.Respini, Eva: - Eva Respini is the Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA/Boston. Previously she was associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has organized numerous exhibitions on contemporary art and photography at MoMA, including the recent, critically acclaimed Cindy Sherman retrospective. Other exhibitions she has organized or cocurated include Walid Raad, Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, Boris Mikhailov: Case History (2011), Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960 (2011), Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography (2010), Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West (2009), Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz (2008), and New Photography (2012, 2009, 2007, and 2005). She is the author of Cindy Sherman and Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, coauthor of Ordinary Pictures (2016), Fashioning Fiction in Photography since 1990, and a contributor to numerous other publications.
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