James Welling's work has been the subject of survey exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Cincinnati Art Museum. He also participated in documenta 9 and the 2008 Whitney Biennal. Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Sandor Chair and Curator of the Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he organized the accompanying exhibition.
"By turns elegiac and sweet and sad and funny and inscrutable, and
also unfailingly beautiful. Diary/Landscape is a fine and too-rare
example of the type of book that offers much imaginative space in
which the viewer may--indeed, must--roam."-- "Tim Carpenter,
Photo-Eye"
"Welling is doubtless among the greatest conceptual artists
utilizing photography anywhere in the world today. The
Diary/Landscape pictures are cornerstones in this artist's output
that deal with place and the very history of this medium, but also
the essence of photography; time, memory, and death."--James
Crump
"Welling is one of the most important photographers of our period.
A few photographs from Diary/Landscape have seen print before, but
this is in a sense a new work, transforming the pictures we already
knew by returning them to the complete series, published here for
the first time."--Walter Benn Michaels
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