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.^[12][3]

Life and work

In 2000, Fulford and Leanne Shapton founded the non-profit publisher J&L Books.^[10][11]

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. 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.^[8]
• 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.^[26]
• 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.^[9]
• 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^[10]