Jack Welpott

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Jack Warren Welpott (April 27, 1923 – November 24, 2007) was an American photographer.

Biography

Welpott was born on April 27, 1923, in Kansas City. He grew up in southern Indiana. He was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces in 1943, during World War II, and served as a radio intercept operator in the South Pacific until 1946. After the war, he returned to Indiana to attend Indiana University Bloomington. In 1949, he earned his BS in Economics from the Indiana University Bloomington. Unsure of his direction, he enrolled in a photography class and met the legendary photography instructor Henry Holmes Smith. Under his tutelage, Welpott became enthralled with black-and-white photography as a fine art form.

Welpott studied painting under Leon Golub and Harry Engle, and design with George Rickey, receiving his MS in Visual Communication in 1955, followed by an MFA in 1959.

Career

Welpott began his long teaching career at San Francisco State College as he pursued the career of a professional photographer. In 1973, he was the recipient of the Medal of Arles, France; later that same year he received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; and, in 1983, a Polaroid grant in association with the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.

Works

Welpott's photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Norton Simon Art Museum, Pasadena, California; Oakland Museum of Modern Art, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia.^{[citation needed]}

Welpott died on November 24, 2007, aged 84, from kidney failure.

Bibliography

• Welpott, Jack (2006). Driving to Stony Lonesome: Jack Welpott's Indiana Photographs, 1936–1959. Quarry Books. ISBN 978-0-253-21866-7.
• Welpott, Jack. Jack Welpott, Vintage Photographs 1952–1972: Exhibition [Catalog], January 23 – March 20, 1999. Petaluma, California: Barry Singer Gallery, 1999.
• Welpott, Jack. Jack Welpott: The Halide Conversion. Tokyo, Japan: Gallery Min, 1988 ISBN 978-4906265183
• Camerawork Gallery, Jack Welpott, Leland Rice, and Harold Jones. Contemporary California Photography: Catalogue of the Exhibition Camerawork Gallery, March, April, May 1978. San Francisco: San Francisco Camerawork Press, 1978.
• Welpott, Jack. The Visual Dialogue Foundation [Exhibition] at the Friends of Photography Gallery, Carmel, California, February 4 Through March 10, 1972: [Catalog.]. 1972. OCLC 63353376

References

Further reading

• Dater, Judy; Welpott, Jack (1975). Women and other visions. Morgan & Morgan. ISBN 978-0-87100-083-5.
• Johnston, Tracy (April 26, 1976). "What Makes a Pose?". The Village Voice. p. 155.
• "Noted Photographer to Lecture". Santa Cruz Sentinel. March 5, 1981. p. 21.
• Foerstner, Abigail (May 3, 1985). "To Jack Welpott, What's Outside is a Clue to Inside". The Chicago Tribune.
• Grover, Janice Zita (July 1986). "Shifts of Focus". The Women's Review of Books. 3 (10): 11–12. doi:10.2307/4019949. JSTOR 4019949.
• Bayles, David; Orland, Ted (2001). Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking. Image Continuum Press. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-0-9614547-2-2.
• Parmer, Janet (February 27, 2004). "Photography Master Embraces New Technology; Welpott at Age 80 Hails Digital". The Press Democrat.
• Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Routledge. pp. 1672–. ISBN 978-1-135-20536-2.
• "Jack Welpott". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on October 2, 2016.
• "Jack (Warren) Welpott". Contemporary Photographers. Biography in Context. Gale. 1996.
• "Jack (Warren) Welpott". Contemporary Authors. Biography in Context. Gale. 2003.
• "Jack Welpott". Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• "Jack Welpott". George Eastman Museum.
• "Jack Welpott". The Museum of Modern Art.
• Sander, Gloria Williams; Mulligan, Therese (2006). The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum. Norton Simon Art Foundation. pp. 263–264. ISBN 978-0-300-12100-1.
• "Oral history interview with Judy Dater". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian Institution. June 2, 2000.
• Marable, Darwin (2008). "In Memoriam". History of Photography. 32 (2): 210–212. doi:10.1080/03087290802011558.
• "University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography Acquires the Jack Welpott Archive" (Press release). University of Arizona. States News Service. February 10, 2012. Archived from the original on October 8, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
• "About". Jack Welpott Photography. Jan Welpott. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.