{{Short description|American photographer (1923–2007)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} '''Jack Warren 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 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.
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.{{citation needed |date=May 2013}}
He died of kidney failure on November 24, 2007, at the age of 84.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jack Welpott |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=jack-welpott&pid=100922653 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=January 9, 2008}}</ref>
==Bibliography== *{{cite book |last=Welpott |first=Jack |date=2006 |title=Driving to Stony Lonesome: Jack Welpott's Indiana Photographs, 1936–1959 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XMolAQAAIAAJ |publisher=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== {{Reflist}} *Pedro Meyer *Ben Nixon
==Further reading== *{{cite book |last1=Dater |first1=Judy |last2=Welpott |first2=Jack |date=1975 |title=Women and other visions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-BLAQAAIAAJ |publisher=Morgan & Morgan |isbn=978-0-87100-083-5}} *{{cite news |last=Johnston |first=Tracy |date=April 26, 1976 |title=What Makes a Pose? |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1299&dat=19760426&id=vQFOAAAAIBAJ&pg=5984,5638004 |newspaper=The Village Voice |page=155}} *{{cite news |title=Noted Photographer to Lecture |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6730430/noted_photographer_to_lecture/ |newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=March 5, 1981 |page=21}} {{free access}} *{{cite news |last=Foerstner |first=Abigail |date=May 3, 1985 |title=To Jack Welpott, What's Outside is a Clue to Inside |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/05/03/to-jack-welpott-whats-outside-is-a-clue-to-inside/ |newspaper=The Chicago Tribune}} *{{cite journal |last=Grover |first=Janice Zita |date=July 1986 |title=Shifts of Focus |journal=The Women's Review of Books |volume=3 |issue=10 |pages=11–12|doi=10.2307/4019949 |jstor=4019949}} *{{cite book |last1=Bayles |first1=David |last2=Orland |first2=Ted |date=2001 |title=Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yGf6CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85 |publisher=Image Continuum Press |pages=85– |isbn=978-0-9614547-2-2}} *{{cite news |last=Parmer |first=Janet |date=February 27, 2004 |title=Photography Master Embraces New Technology; Welpott at Age 80 Hails Digital |newspaper=The Press Democrat}} *{{cite book |last=Warren |first=Lynne |date=2005 |title=Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31VsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1672 |publisher=Routledge |pages=1672– |isbn=978-1-135-20536-2}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4847c80 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002011716/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4847c80 |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 2, 2016 |title=Jack Welpott |website=British Film Institute}} *{{cite web |url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?documentId=GALE%7CK1653000699 |title=Jack (Warren) Welpott |date=1996 |website=Contemporary Photographers |series=Biography in Context |publisher=Gale |url-access=subscription}} *{{cite web |url=http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?documentId=GALE%7CH1000150236 |title=Jack (Warren) Welpott |date=2003 |website=Contemporary Authors |series=Biography in Context |publisher=Gale |url-access=subscription}} *{{cite web |url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=6074 |title=Jack Welpott |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}} *{{cite web |url=http://collections.eastman.org/people/63638/jack-welpott |title=Jack Welpott |website=George Eastman Museum}} *{{cite web |url=http://moma.org/artists/6308 |title=Jack Welpott |website=The Museum of Modern Art}} *{{cite book |last1=Sander |first1=Gloria Williams |last2=Mulligan |first2=Therese |date=2006 |title=The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum |publisher=Norton Simon Art Foundation |pages=263–264 |isbn=978-0-300-12100-1}} *{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-judy-dater-11796 |title=Oral history interview with Judy Dater |date=June 2, 2000 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}} *{{cite journal |last=Marable |first=Darwin |date=2008 |title= In Memoriam |journal=History of Photography |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=210–212 |doi=10.1080/03087290802011558|doi-access=free}} *{{cite press release |date=February 10, 2012 |title=University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography Acquires the Jack Welpott Archive |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-279564155.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008194728/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-279564155.html |url-status=dead|archive-date=October 8, 2016 |publisher=University of Arizona |agency=States News Service |via=HighBeam Research }} *{{cite web |url=http://jackwelpott.com/about.html |title=About |website=Jack Welpott Photography |publisher=Jan Welpott |access-date=September 22, 2016 |archive-date=June 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616131719/http://jackwelpott.com/about.html |url-status=dead }}
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