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Jason Fulford (born 1973) is an American photographer, publisher and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York City and Scranton, PA.

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), Contains: 3 Books (2016), The Medium is a Mess (2018), and Clayton's Ascent (2018). He has had a solo exhibition at Minneapolis Institute of Art and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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

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, and married to Tamara Shopsin.

Fulford's photographs have been featured in The Atlantic, Harper's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Topic.

Publications

Publications of photographs by Fulford

• Sunbird. Atlanta, GA: Bird Entertainment, 2000. With text by Adam Gilders. ISBN 9780970165602.
• Crushed. Atlanta, GA: J&L, 2003. ISBN 9780970165671.
• Raising Frogs For $$$. Los Angeles, CA: The Ice Plant, 2006. ISBN 978-0-9776481-1-5.
• The Mushroom Collector. Amsterdam: Soon, 2010. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita. ISBN 9789081058421.
• Notes on Fulford's Raising Frogs For $$$. Los Angeles, CA: The Ice Plant, 2011. ISBN 9780982365359.
• Hotel Oracle. Edited by Lorenzo De Rita.
  • First edition. Amsterdam: The Soon Institute, 2013. ISBN 978-90-810584-4-5. Edition of 1000 copies.
  • Second edition. Amsterdam: The Soon Institute, 2014. ISBN 9789081058452. 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. ISBN 9789081058476.
• The Medium is a Mess. Reggio Emilia: Studio Blanco, 2018. Edition of 500 copies.
• Clayton's Ascent. TBW Subscription Series 6, Book 2. Oakland, CA: TBW, 2018. ISBN 978-1-942953-33-3. 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. ISBN 978-1-912339-74-7.
• The Heart Is a Sandwich. London: Mack, 2023. ISBN 978-1-913620-96-7.

Publications about art for young readers

• This Equals That. New York: Aperture, 2014. With Tamara Shopsin. ISBN 978-1-59711-288-8.
• Find Colors. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-0714876597.
• These Colors Are Bananas. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-0714876603.
• A Pile of Leaves. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-0714877204.
• Art This Way. London: Phaidon, 2018. With Shopsin, in partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art. ISBN 978-0714877211.

Publications edited by Fulford

• The Photographer's Playbook: 307 Assignments and Ideas. New York: Aperture, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59711-247-5. Edited by Fulford and Gregory Halpern.
• Good 70s. Atlanta/New York: J&L/D.A.P., 2015. ISBN 978-0-9895311-4-6. By Mike Mandel with text by Sandra Phillips. Edited by Fulford and Sharon Gallagher.
• Where To Score. Atlanta/San Francisco: J&L/Kadist, 2018. ISBN 978-0999365519. 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. ISBN 978-159711-4998.
• Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us: Photographs by Corita. Atlanta/New York: J&L/Magic Hour, 2023. ISBN 978-0-9993655-5-7. 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). ISBN 978-0970351708. 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. ISBN 978-0307264930. Photographs by Fulford and Tamara Shopsin. Foreword by Calvin Trillin.
• Brooks Headley's Fancy Desserts. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. By Brooks Headley. ISBN 978-0393241075. 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. ISBN 978-0989531139. 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. ISBN 978-0989531160. Edited by John Klacsmann and Andrew Lampert. Photographs by Fulford.
• Bruce Conner Brass Handles. Atlanta, GA: J&L, 2016. ISBN 978-0989531184. 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. ISBN 978-0804187756. 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.
• Harry Smith's Paper Airplanes, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA, May–August 2016.
• High Anxiety, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February–March 2017.
• Fake Newsroom, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, April 2017. With Jim Goldberg and Dru Donovan.

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.
• Hotel Oracle, Krakow Photomonth, Krakow, Poland, 2014.
• 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.
• The Mushroom Collection, Photo España, Madrid, 2018, Curated by Cristina De Middel.

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

References

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

External links

• Official website

• 1973 births
• Living people
• People from Atlanta
• American photographers
• 21st-century American publishers (people)