James Welling
Subtitle: photographs 1974-1999
By: Sarah J. Rogers ; with an essay by Michael Fried.
Contributors: Rogers-Lafferty, Sarah.; Fried, Michael.; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts.; Baltimore Museum of Art.; Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Columbus, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Welling, James -- Exhibitions; Architectural photography -- Exhibitions; Photography, Industrial -- Exhibitions; Photography of railroads -- Exhibitions; Photography, Abstract -- Exhibitions; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: 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.
Notes: Exhibition held at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, May 6-Aug. 13, 2000, at Baltimore Museum of Art, Sep. 10-Dec. 10, 2000, and at Museum ofContemporary Art, Los Angeles, May 6-Aug. 26, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).