James Welling: Monograph (signed edition)

Designed by Lorraine Wild and Amy Fortunato, Green Dragon Office, Los Angeles

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 255
Number of images: 250
Publication date: 2013-03-31
Measurements: 9.8 x 11.2 x 1.3 inches
ISBN: 9781683950721

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 over fifteen years, and a visiting professor at Princeton University.

James Crump (editor and introduction) is chief curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum. His published works include Variety: Photographs by Nan Goldin (2009), F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal (1995), and Walker Evans: Decade by Decade (2010). In 2007 Crump wrote, produced, and directed the acclaimed documentary film Black White + Gray, a portrait of curator and collector Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Eva Respini (interview) is an associate curator in the Department of Photography at MoMA.

Mark Godfrey (essay) is a curator at Tate Modern in London.

Thomas Seelig (essay) is curator at the Fotomuseum winterthur, winterthur, Switzerland.

“James Welling (Aperture) is a sensationally attractive book. It was published to coincide with a large survey exhibition of the artist's work from the 1970s through 2012 that opened at the Cincinnati Art Museum and traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where I caught up with it. The main text by James Crump is an exemplary account of Welling's career to date: It proceeds in chronological order, series by series, with unflagging intelligence and critical acumen. What gives Monograph its special allure are the 250 technically superb illustrations in black-and-white and color, which offer a brilliant tour d’horizon of Welling’s remarkably inventive, multifarious, often lyrically beautiful production. No one persuing this dazzling and substantial book could possibly doubt that Welling ranks among the foremost photographic artits in the world today.”—Michael Fried, Artforum