Jason Fulford Explained

Jason Fulford
Occupation:	photographer, publisher and educator
Nationality:	American
Spouse:	Tamara Shopsin

Jason Fulford (born 1973)^[1] is an American photographer, publisher^[2] and educator,^[3] based in Brooklyn, New York City^[4] and Scranton, PA.^[5]

The primary format for Fulford's own photography is the book, which include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs For $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013),^[6] Contains: 3 Books (2016),^[7] The Medium is a Mess (2018), and Clayton's Ascent (2018).^[8] He has had a solo exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Art^[9] and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[10]

Fulford is co-founder of J&L Books,^[11] where he is publisher, editor and book designer.^[12] He works as a photographer and has lectured at various universities.^[3]

Life and work

In 2000, Fulford and Leanne Shapton founded the non-profit publisher J&L Books.

He is based in Brooklyn, New York City,^[4] and married to Tamara Shopsin.^{[13] [14]}

Fulford's photographs have been featured in The Atlantic,^[15] Harper's,^[16] The New Yorker,^{[17] [18] [19] [20]} The New York Times,^[21] The New York Times Magazine,^{[22] [23] [24]} and Topic.^[25]

Publications

Publications of photographs by Fulford

• Sunbird. Atlanta, GA: Bird Entertainment, 2000. With text by Adam Gilders. .
• Crushed. Atlanta, GA: J&L, 2003. .
• Raising Frogs For $$$. Los Angeles, CA: The Ice Plant, 2006. .
• The Mushroom Collector. Amsterdam: Soon, 2010. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita. .
• Notes on Fulford's Raising Frogs For $$$. Los Angeles, CA: The Ice Plant, 2011. .
• Hotel Oracle. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita.
  • First edition. Amsterdam: The Soon Institute, 2013. . Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Second edition. Amsterdam: The Soon Institute, 2014. . Edition of 1000 copies.
• Contains: 3 Books. Amsterdam: The Soon Institute, 2016. Three volumes in a box, Mild Moderate Severe Profound, I Am Napoleon and &&. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita. .
• The Medium is a Mess. Reggio Emilia: Studio Blanco, 2018. Edition of 500 copies.^[8]
• Clayton's Ascent. TBW Subscription Series 6, Book 2. Oakland, CA: TBW, 2018. . Fulford, Guido Guidi, Gregory Halpern, and Viviane Sassen each had one book in a set of four. Edition of 1000 copies.
• Picture Summer On Kodak Film. London: Mack, 2020. .
• The Heart Is a Sandwich. London: Mack, 2023. .

Publications about art for young readers

• This Equals That. New York: Aperture, 2014. With Tamara Shopsin. .^[26]
• Find Colors. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. .
• These Colors Are Bananas. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. .
• A Pile of Leaves. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. .
• Art This Way. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. .

Publications edited by Fulford

• The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas. New York: Aperture, 2014. . Edited by Fulford and Gregory Halpern.
• Good 70s. Atlanta/New York: J&L/D.A.P., 2015. . By Mike Mandel with text by Sandra Phillips. Edited by Fulford and Sharon Gallagher.
• Where To Score. Atlanta/San Francisco: J&L/Kadist, 2018. . Edited by Fulford and Jordan Stein.
• Der Greif. Issue #11. Munich: Der Greif, 2018. ISSN 2191-4524. Edited by Fulford.
• Photo No-No's: Meditations on What Not to Photograph. New York: Aperture, 2021. .
• Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us: Photographs by Corita. Atlanta/New York: J&L/Magic Hour, 2023. . Edited by Julie Ault, Fulford and Jordan Weitzman.

Publications with contributions by Fulford

• Making Scenes. New York: Broadvision, 2001. By Penelope Trunk (as Adrienne Eisen). . Photographs and design by Fulford.
• Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. By Kenny Shopsin and Carolynn Carreño. . Photographs by Fulford and Tamara Shopsin. Foreword by Calvin Trillin.
• Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. By Brooks Headley. . Photographs and design by Fulford and Tamara Shopsin.
• Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I. Atlanta/New York: J&L/Anthology Film Archives, 2015. . Edited by John Klacsmann and Andrew Lampert. Photographs by Fulford.
• String Figures: The Collections of Harry Smith, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I. Atlanta/New York: J&L/Anthology Film Archives, 2015. . Edited by John Klacsmann and Andrew Lampert. Photographs by Fulford.
• Bruce Conner Brass Handles. Atlanta, GA: J&L, 2016. . By Will Brown with text by Jean Conner. Photographs by Fulford.
• All About Eggs. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2017. By Rachel Khong and the editors of Lucky Peach. . Photographs and design by Fulford and Tamara Shopsin.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• New Pictures 5: Jason Fulford, The Mushroom Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, October 2011 – April 2012. Photographs, publications, sculptures (involving the museum's permanent collection), and performances.
• Mushroom Machine, San Francisco, CA, Kadist, May 2012.^[27]
• Harry Smith's Paper Airplanes, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA, May–August 2016.^[28]
• High Anxiety, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February–March 2017.^[29]
• Fake Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, April 2017. With Jim Goldberg and Dru Donovan.^{[30] [31]}

Group exhibitions or during festivals

• Where There's Smoke, San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, July–August 2014. With Ruth Van Beek, Michael Lundgren and Viviane Sassen, Curated by Darius Himes.^[32]
• Hotel Oracle, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland, 2014.^{[33] [34]}
• Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, September–October 2017. Collaboration between Amanda Boe, McNair Evans, Kevin Kunishi, Fulford, Todd Hido, Mark Mahaney, Mike Smith, and Alec Soth.^{[35] [36]}
• The Mushroom Collection, Photo España, Madrid, 2018, Curated by Cristina De Middel.^[3]

Awards

• 2014: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

See also

• Shopsin's – a diner in New York City whose chef/owner, Kenny Shopsin, is Tamara Shopsin's father

Notes and References

1. "This Equals That By Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin". Aperture Foundation. Accessed 1 April 2018.
2. Web site: Jason Fulford. Pier 24. 2019-10-23.
3. Web site: Q&A: Jason Fulford, photographer, book-maker, and educator. 2018-08-03. British Journal of Photography. 2019-10-24.
4. News: How Tamara Shopsin, Illustrator and Part-Time Cook, Spends Her Sundays. Gorce. Tammy La. 2018-03-16. The New York Times. 2019-10-23. 0362-4331.
5. Web site: 2016-07-27 . Episode 3 Jason Fulford . 2024-02-27 . Magic Hour . en-US.
6. Web site: Jason Fulford at MiCamera. 2014-03-26. Vogue.it. 2019-10-24.
7. Web site: Jason Fulford can't be contained. Aperture Foundation NY. 2019-10-24.
8. Web site: Interview with Jason Fulford. FK. 2019-10-24.
9. "NP5 – Jason Fulford". Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Accessed 2 April 2018.
10. Web site: Jason Fulford. 1 April 2018 . .
11. Web site: An Interview with Jason Fulford. 4 August 2011 . 1 April 2018 . Rocco . Castoro . .
12. Web site: Jason Fulford at MiCamera. Bardelli Nonino. Chiara. Vogue Italia. 2 April 2018.
13. News: How Tamara Shopsin, Illustrator and Part-Time Cook, Spends Her Sundays. 16 March 2018 . 2 April 2018 . Tammy . La Gorce . . New York City .
14. News: A Feast for the Senses: 'Mumbai New York Scranton,' by Tamara Shopsin. 22 March 2013 . 2 April 2018 . Benjamin . Anastas . . New York City .
15. News: Physicians Get Addicted Too. Quinones. Sam. May 2019. The Atlantic. 2019-10-24. 1072-7825.
16. Web site: Jason Fulford Harper's Magazine. 2019-10-24.
17. News: Treasures from the Color Archive. Schama. Simon. The New Yorker. 2018-08-27. 2019-10-24. 0028-792X.
18. News: Remembering Ed Whitlock, the Marathoner Who Was Still Breaking Records at Eighty-Five. Crouch. Ian. The New Yorker. 2017-03-30. 2019-10-24. 0028-792X.
19. News: The Paper Planes of New York. DenHoed. Andrea. 2015-09-28. 2019-10-24. Fulford. Jason. The New Yorker. 0028-792X.
20. News: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus. Chiasson. Dan. The New Yorker. 2019-04-22. 2019-10-24. 0028-792X.
21. Web site: Visiting Le Corbusier's Grave. Shopsin. Tamara. Fulford. Jason. 2015-03-13. Opinionator. 2019-10-24.
22. News: Food - Prep Work. Wells. Pete. 2010-09-14. The New York Times. 2019-10-24. 0362-4331.
23. News: Cooking with Dexter - Nut Allergies. Wells. Pete. 2010-04-28. The New York Times. 2019-10-24. 0362-4331.
24. News: Pretending That McDonald's Doesn't Exist. Wells. Pete. 2009-09-30. The New York Times. 2019-10-24. 0362-4331.
25. Web site: A Dream Called Epcot. Topic. 2019-10-24.
26. News: Ways of Seeing. Russo. Maria. 2014-11-12. The New York Times. 2019-10-24. 0362-4331.
27. Web site: Jason Fulford's Mushroom Machine – Kadist. 2019-10-24.
28. Web site: Harry Smith's Paper Airplane Collection SFO Museum. www.sfomuseum.org. 2019-10-24.
29. Web site: Jason Fulford: High Anxiety: 9 Feb 2017 – 25 Mar 2017. 2 April 2018 . .
30. Web site: Charlotte Cotton's Best of 2017. 2 April 2018 . Charlotte . Cotton . .
31. Web site: Fake Newsroom. 2 April 2018 . .
32. Web site: Where There's Smoke. Fraenkel Gallery. 2019-10-24.
33. News: Krakow Photomonth - in pictures. 7 June 2014 . 1 April 2018 . Jim . Powell . . London .
34. News: A tour of Krakow Photography Festival. 1 April 2018 . . London .
35. News: A photographic chain of inspiration as mentors' work influences mentees. 30 August 2017 . 2 April 2018 . Sam . Whiting . . San Francisco .
36. Web site: Begin Anywhere: Paths of Mentorship and Collaboration. 2 April 2018 . .