Jason Fulford, “Land”

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Photographer Jason Fulford is co-founder of the non-profit J&L Books. He is a contributing editor to Blind Spotmagazine, and his photographs have been featured in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and on book jackets for Don Delillo, Richard Ford, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell and John Updike.

From Alice Twemlow’s introduction to Jason Fulford:

Jason is a fantastic photographer highly regarded in both applied and fine art contexts. You can see his work in The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Life,Newsweek and on covers of novels by Richard Ford, John Updike, and Annie Proulx among others. He also exhibits the world over and three collections of his photographs are in circulation.

Three interesting things:

1. We’ve never had a photographer speak to us. How does the way a photographer looks at objects and the built environment differ from the way a writer or critic looks at them? And what might we learn from that?

2. Subject matter: Land. We spend a lot of time looking at objects and buildings. Jason looks at the spaces between things and buildings, the landscapes in which buildings and objects are both rooted and rootless. His photographs show us connections and disjunctions between things, the patterns and absurdities—the disregarded but somehow poetic fragments of our daily lives.

3. J&L Books: Jason established J&L books with illustrator Leanne Shapton to publish the work of artists they like in formats that demonstrate their sensitivity to design. It offers D-Crit students a possible model for practice.