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American photographer (born 1971)
Photograph from Ulrich's Copia series
Brian Ulrich (born 1971) is an American
photographer known for his photographic exploration of consumer culture.
[1]
Life and work
Ulrich was born in
Northport, New York ,
[2] and lives in
Providence, Rhode Island .[
citation needed ] He received a BFA in photography from
University of Akron in Akron, Ohio (1996) and an MFA in photography from
Columbia College Chicago (2004).
[2] He has taught photography at Columbia College Chicago and
Gallery 37 , both in Chicago; and at the University of Akron.
[2] He is an Associate Professor of Photography at the
Rhode Island School of Design .
[3]
In 2001 in response to a national call for citizens to bolster the American economy through shopping, Ulrich began a project to document consumer culture. This project, Copia, is a series of large scale photographs of shoppers, retail spaces, and displays of goods. Initially focused on big-box retail establishments and shoppers, the series expanded to include thrift stores, back rooms of retail businesses, art fairs and most recently empty retail stores and
dead malls .
Ulrich works with a combination of
4×5 large format and
medium format cameras,
[4] and also incorporates found objects as sculpture, juxtaposed with his photographs on gallery walls.
[5]
Publications
Publications by Ulrich
Is This Place Great or What. New York: Aperture; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
ISBN
978-1597111928 .
[6]
Closeout: Retail Relics and Ephemera. Anderson Gallery, 2013. With an interview with and an essay by
Will Steacy .
Publications with contributions by Ulrich
Exhibitions
Solo
Group
Manufactured Self, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL (2005)
[11]
On the Scene,
Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago, IL (2005)
[12]
Photocentric, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN (2005)
MP3,
Kelli Connell , Justin Newhall, and Brian Ulrich, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, (2006)
[13]
Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children,
DeCordova Museum , Lincoln, MA, (2008)
[14]
World's Away: New Suburban Landscapes,
Walker Art Center , Minneapolis, MN;
[15] Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (2008)
[16]
Made in Chicago, Photographs from the LaSalle Bank Collection,
Chicago Cultural Center , Chicago, IL (2008)
Awards
Collections
Ulrich's work is held in the following permanent collections
References
^ Cleveland, Larissa (2008).
Collector: Collection/possession/persona . p. 19.
ISBN
978-0-549-49063-0 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
a
b
c
"Brian Ulrich" . Museum of Contemporary Photography . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^
"Brian Ulrich" . www.risd.edu . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^
"Brian Ulrich"
Archived 2017-07-24 at the
Wayback Machine ,
Lost at E Minor , 10 September 2008. Retrieved on 2 August 2015.
^
"Brian Ulrich, Is This Place Great or What: Artifacts and Photographs @Julie Saul" ,
Collector Daily , New York, 6 April 2012. Retrieved on 1 August 2015.
^
"Is big beautiful? Brian Ulrich's decaying shopping malls - in pictures" . The Guardian . 11 November 2011.
ISSN
0261-3077 . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^
"UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work: Brian Ulrich" . MCA . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
^
"Brian Ulrich: Copia" . 21 August 2009.
^
"Results – Search Objects – eMuseum" .
^ Department, JCCC Digital.
"Richard Ross and Brian Ulrich" . www.jccc.edu . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Manufactured Self" . www.mocp.org . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"On the Scene: Jessica Rowe, Jason Salavon, Brian Ulrich" . The Art Institute of Chicago . 12 November 2005. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"MP3: Kelli Connell, Justin Newhall, Brian Ulrich" . www.mocp.org . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children" . decordova.org . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes" . walkerart.org . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes" . Carnegie Museum of Art: Storyboard . 7 October 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Brian Ulrich" . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Brian Ulrich" . Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego . 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Brian Ulrich" . The Art Institute of Chicago . 1971. Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
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"Museum of Contemporary Photography" . Museum of Contemporary Photography . Retrieved 2020-09-08 .
External links
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