Jack Welpott Explained

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

Biography

He was born in Kansas City on April 27, 1923, grew up in southern Indiana, and was educated at primary and secondary schools in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. He served in World War II, and returned to the Hoosier state to attend Indiana University. 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.

He 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

He 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.

He died of kidney failure on November 24, 2007, at the age of 84.^[1]

Bibliography

• Book: Welpott, Jack . 2006 . Driving to Stony Lonesome: Jack Welpott's Indiana Photographs, 1936–1959 . Quarry Books . 978-0-253-21866-7.
• Welpott, Jack. Jack Welpott, Vintage Photographs 1952–1972: Exhibition [Catalog], Jan 23 – March 20, 1999. Petaluma, CA: Barry Singer Gallery, 1999.
• Welpott, Jack. Jack Welpott: The Halide Conversion. Tokyo, Japan: Gallery Min, 1988
• 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, Calif., Febr. 4 Through March 10, 1972: [Catalog.]. 1972.

References

• Pedro Meyer
• Ben Nixon

Further reading

• Book: Dater . Judy . Welpott . Jack . 1975 . Women and other visions . Morgan & Morgan . 978-0-87100-083-5.
• News: Johnston . Tracy . April 26, 1976 . What Makes a Pose? . The Village Voice . 155.
• News: Noted Photographer to Lecture . Santa Cruz Sentinel . March 5, 1981 . 21.
• News: 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. 10.2307/4019949 . 4019949 .
• Book: Bayles . David . Orland . Ted . 2001 . Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking . Image Continuum Press . 85– . 978-0-9614547-2-2.
• News: Parmer . Janet . February 27, 2004 . Photography Master Embraces New Technology; Welpott at Age 80 Hails Digital . The Press Democrat.
• Book: Warren, Lynne . 2005 . Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set . Routledge . 1672– . 978-1-135-20536-2.
• Web site: Jack Welpott . https://web.archive.org/web/20161002011716/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4847c80 . dead . October 2, 2016 . British Film Institute.
• Web site: Jack (Warren) Welpott . 1996 . Contemporary Photographers . Biography in Context . Gale . subscription .
• Web site: Jack (Warren) Welpott . 2003 . Contemporary Authors . Biography in Context . Gale . subscription .
• Web site: Jack Welpott . Smithsonian American Art Museum.
• Web site: Jack Welpott . George Eastman Museum.
• Web site: Jack Welpott . The Museum of Modern Art.
• Book: Sander . Gloria Williams . Mulligan . Therese . 2006 . The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum . Norton Simon Art Foundation . 263–264 . 978-0-300-12100-1.
• Web site: Oral history interview with Judy Dater . June 2, 2000 . Archives of American Art . Smithsonian Institution.
• Marable . Darwin . 2008 . In Memoriam . History of Photography . 32 . 2 . 210–212 . 10.1080/03087290802011558. free .
• February 10, 2012 . University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography Acquires the Jack Welpott Archive . https://web.archive.org/web/20161008194728/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-279564155.html . dead. October 8, 2016 . University of Arizona . States News Service . .
• Web site: About . Jack Welpott Photography . Jan Welpott.

Notes and References

1. News: Jack Welpott . San Francisco Chronicle . January 9, 2008.