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Zusatztext 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 intellegence 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" (12/01/2014) Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Published to accompany James Welling: Monograph, a traveling exhibition organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and curated by James Crump. February 2-May 5, 2013, Cincinnati Art Museum; November 30, 2013-February 9, 2014, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland"--Colophon. 505 0 $a Ventriloquisms: the art of James Welling / James Crump -- On photography and influence: James Welling in conversation with Eva Respini -- Plan and affect in the work of James Welling / Thomas Seelig -- Light, loss, love: James Welling's light sources / Mark Godfrey. Zusammenfassung 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...
