Draft:Justin Kimball (photographer)

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{{Infobox person

| name = Justin Kimball

| image =

| birth_date = 1961

| alma_mater = Yale University School of Art Rhode Island School of Design

| occupation = Photographer, Educator, Artist

| website = {{URL|Justinkimballphotography.com}}

}}

Justin Kimball (born 1961) is an American photographer, educator, and artist. He currently teaches at Amherst College as the Conway Professor in New Media.{{cite web |title=Amherst College Faculty and Staff |url=https://www.aws.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/jfkimball |website=Amherst College |access-date=2 July 2024}}

Career

Justin Kimball was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1961. He earned a BFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1985 while studying under professors Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Gary Metz, and William "Billy" Parker.{{cite web |last1=Kimball |first1=Justin |title=Justin Kimball Photography |url=https://www.justinkimballphotography.com/ |website=Justin Kimball Photograhpy |access-date=2 July 2024}} After earning his BFA he worked as an assistant to photographer Duane Michals and then earned his MFA in photography from the Yale University School of Art in 1990 where he studied under photographers Richard Benson and Tod Papageorge. After finishing his MFA, he taught as an Assistant Professor of Photography at The Rhode Island School of Design and then as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Orange Coast College. Justin Kimball began teaching at Amherst College in 2001 and is currently the Conway Professor in New Media.

In 2003 Justin Kimball was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/justin-kimball/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2 July 2024}} which funded his first monograph, Where We Find Ourselves, published in 2006. The photographs, taken from the mid 1990's to the early 2000's, depict how Americans find leisure in the natural landscape. Photographs from the book were included in a collection of photographs presenting the changing ideas surrounding family in the U.S. titled Spirit of Family{{cite book |last1=Gore |first1=Al |last2=Gore |first2=Tipper |title=The Spirit of Family |date=2002 |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York, NY |isbn=5550151677 }} and was published by former Vice President Al Gore and his wife Tipper Gore.

Museums which have collected Kimball's work include: The National Gallery of Art{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.41339.html |website=NGA |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}} in Washington D.C., the J. Paul Getty Museum{{cite web |title=Museum Collection |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/105C0J |website=Getty Museum |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |access-date=6 April 2025}} in Los Angeles, California, and the Cleveland Museum of Art{{cite web |title=Green Street Bedroom |url=https://www.clevelandart.org/print/art/2015.93 |website=Cleveland Art |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}} in Cleveland, Ohio, among others.

Work

== Monographs ==

Who By Fire, Essay by Eileen Myles, Radius Books, Fall 2022 {{isbn|9781955161008}}
Elegy, Essay by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Radius Books, 2017 {{isbn|9781942185062}}
Pieces of String, Essay by Douglas Kimball, Radius Books, 2012 {{isbn|9781934435502}}
Where We Find Ourselves, Introduction by Richard B. Woodward, Center for American Places, 2006 {{isbn|1930066465}}

== Books as Contributor ==

Object Lesson: The Legacy of Richard Benson Aperture, 2022{{cite book |title=Object lesson: on the influence of Richard Benson |date=2022 |publisher=Aperture |location=New York, NY |isbn=9781597114950 |edition=First |url=https://aperture.org/books/object-lesson-on-the-influence-of-richard-benson/}}
American Geography, Curator Sandra S. Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2021{{cite book |title=American geography: photographs of land use from 1840 to the present |date=2021 |publisher=Radius Books |location=Santa Fe, NM |isbn=9781942185796 |url=https://www.radiusbooks.org/all-books/p/american-geography |access-date=2 July 2024}}
The Photographer in the Garden, Eastman Museum/Aperture, 2018{{cite book |title=The photographer in the garden |date=2018 |publisher=George Eastman Museum ; Aperture |location=Rochester, NY : New York, NY |isbn=9781597113731 |edition=First |url=https://aperture.org/books/the-photographer-in-the-garden-2 |access-date=2 July 2024}}
Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2015{{cite book |last1=Michals |first1=Duane |title=Storyteller: the photographs of Duane Michals |date=2014 |publisher=Carnegie Museum of Art |location=Pittsburgh |isbn=978-3791353708 |url=https://carnegieart.org/resource/storyteller-the-photographs-of-duane-michals-2/ |access-date=2 July 2024}}
America in View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now, Jan Howard, RISD Museum of Art, 2012{{cite book |last1=Bright |first1=Deborah |title=America in view: landscape photography 1865 to now |date=2012 |publisher=Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn=978-0985618902 |url=https://risdmuseum.org/sites/default/files/museumplus/309937.pdf |access-date=2 July 2024}}
Photography and Play, by Erin C. Garcia, Getty Publications, J.P. Getty Museum, 2012{{cite book |last1=Garcia |first1=Erin C. |title=Photography and play |date=2012 |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |location=Los Angeles, CA |isbn=978-1-60606-107-7 |url=https://shop.getty.edu/products/photography-and-play-978-1606061077 |access-date=2 July 2024}}
The Physical Print, A Brief Survey of the Photographic Process, Richard Benson, Yale, 2005{{cite book |last1=Benson |first1=Richard |title=The physical print: a brief survey of the photographic process |date=2005 |publisher=Yale University School of Art |location=New Haven, CT |isbn=978-0972366915}}
Spirit of Family, Al Gore and Tipper Gore, Holt Publishers, 2002{{cite book |last1=Gore |first1=Al |last2=Gore |first2=Tipper |title=The Spirit of Family |date=2002 |publisher=Henry Holt & Company |location=New York, NY |isbn=5550151677 }}

Group Exhibitions

2024 Who By Fire, Personal Structures; Beyond Boundaries, European Cultural Council, Venice, Italy{{cite web |title=2024 ART BIENNIAL "Personal Structures" |url=https://ecc-italy.eu/exhibitions/2024artbiennial |website=The European Cultural Centre |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2021 Object Lesson, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in collaboration with Aperture, Philadelphia, PA{{cite web |title=Object Lesson |url=https://tiltinstitute.org/event/object-lesson-the-legacy-of-richard-benson/ |website=Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2020 American Geography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated by Sandra S. Phillips{{cite news |last1=Galassi |first1=Peter |title=A Sweeping Reconsideration of Photography and Land Use in America |url=https://aperture.org/editorial/a-sweeping-look-at-american-landscape-photography |access-date=2 July 2024 |work=Aperture |publisher=Aperture |date=2021}} (canceled/postponed due to COVID-19)
2019 All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt, curated by Sarah Montross, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA{{cite web |title=All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt |url=https://thetrustees.org/content/marveloussurfaces/ |website=The Trustees }}
2018 From Starfield to MARS: Paul Manship and His Artist Legacy, Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, Justin Kimball, S. Billie Mandle, and Abelardo Morell{{cite news |title=American sculptor Paul Manship celebrated at the Addison |url=https://www.andover.edu/news/2018/american-sculptor-paul-manship-celebrated-at-the-addison |access-date=2 July 2024 |publisher=Phillips Academy Andover |date=2018}}
2018 In the Garden, (Traveling) George Eastman House International Museum Photography, Dickson Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN{{cite news |title=The Photographer in the Garden – in pictures |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/may/11/the-photographer-in-the-garden-in-pictures |access-date=2 July 2024 |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |date=2018}}
2018 (un) Expected Families, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA{{cite web |title=(un)expected families |url=https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/unexpected-families |website=MFA Boston |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2013 The Ubiquity of Photography, Dada Post Gallery, Berlin, Germany{{cite web |title=The Ubiquity of Photography |url=https://kunstraum.dadapost.com/past-exhibitions/#2013 |website=Dada Post |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2012 Flesh and Bone: Photography and the Body, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Awards and Grants

2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/justin-kimball/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2005 John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund, Harvard University
2012 Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship
2014 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photography Competition, Winner{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://pmaphotocompetition.org/artists/justin-kimball/ |website=The Women's Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art |publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art |access-date=2 July 2024}}
2015 Center Santa Fe, Project Development Grant{{cite web |title=Awards 2015 |url=https://awards.visitcenter.org/awards2015/project_development/ |website=Center Awards |publisher=Center |access-date=2 July 2024}}

Reception

=== Elegy ===

Elegy, Kimball's third monograph, "catalogs the victims of de-industrialization between 2012 and 2016" writes William Meyers, from the Wall Street Journal. Meyers describes Kimball's work as one that avoids the pristine colonial homes of New England and delves into a world of decay.{{cite news |last1=Meyers |first1=William |title='Justin Kimball: Elegy' Review: Documents of Decay |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/justin-kimball-elegy-review-documents-of-decay-1514030400 |work=Wall Street Journal |publisher=Wall Street Journal |date=23 December 2017}}

Cate McQuaid, reviewing for the Boston Globe, writes that the "forceful photos of buildings and streets dominate" while the people although seemingly of less focus than the buildings around them, portray "lucid stories of struggle and the bonds of family and friends".{{cite news |last1=McQuaid |first1=Cate |title=Photographer Justin Kimball focuses on the down and out |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/11/30/photographer-justin-kimball-focuses-down-and-out/l46deIVIuqRB2gUhDGp53N/story.html |publisher=Boston Globe |date=30 November 2016}}

Reviewing for Fraction Magazine, Lauren Greenwald concludes that "Justin Kimball offers us a portrait of our times for reflection, sensitively and beautifully" and notes the apparent disconnection of the subjects from one another despite them being in the same photo. Their disconnection seems to make Greenwald consider if the images are composites and writes that "the disjunction between the elements in the image [is] too profound".{{cite journal |last1=Greenwald |first1=Lauren |title=Elegy |journal=Fraction Magazine |issue=93 |url=https://www.fractionmagazine.com/elegy/}}

Selected Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH{{cite web |title=Green Street Bedroom |url=https://www.clevelandart.org/print/art/2015.93 |website=Cleveland Art |publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}}
DeCorvoda Museum, Lincoln, MA{{cite web |title=Niagara Street from the Series Elegy |url=https://thetrustees.org/content/niagara-street-from-the-series-elegy/ |website=The Trustees |publisher=The Trustees of Reservations |access-date=6 April 2025}}
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://collections.eastman.org/search/justin%20kimball |website=Eastman Museum |publisher=George Eastman Museum |access-date=6 April 2025}}
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA{{cite web |title=Museum Collection |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/105C0J |website=Getty Museum |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI{{cite web |title=Adler Avenue, Bed, from the series Pieces of String |url=https://collection.mam.org/details.php?id=31152 |website=Milwaukee Art Museum |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL{{cite web |title=View Finder: Landscape and Leisure in the Collection |url=https://www.mocp.org/exhibition/view-finder-leisure-and-landscape-in-the-permanent-collection/ |website=MoCP |publisher=Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA{{cite web |title=Collections |url=https://collections.mfa.org/search/objects/*/justin%20kimball |website=MFA Boston |publisher=Museum of Fine Arts Boston |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX{{cite web |title=River Road |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/120628/river-road?ctx=99b53ef4c6be3bc7eecec1fe8b15466f29b183b3&idx=1 |website=MFA Museum of Fine Arts Houston |publisher=The Museum of Fine Arts Houston |access-date=6 April 2025}}
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.41339.html |website=NGA |publisher=National Gallery of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}}
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MS{{cite web |title=Dublin Drive, Basement |url=https://art.nelson-atkins.org/objects/59401/dublin-drive-basement;jsessionid=E7FD192CAFFE5AE3EC1E268FE85964F4?ctx=6eb28eea-2f53-469e-8235-f3bc8c9cf936&idx=0 |website=Nelson Atkins Museum of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}}
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/Justin_Kimball/ |website=SFMOMA |publisher=San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art |access-date=6 April 2025}}
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL{{cite web |title=Justin Kimball |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/104755/justin-kimball |website=Art Institute Chicago |publisher=Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=6 April 2025}}
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA{{cite web |title=Lewis Drive, Hallway |url=https://high.org/collection/lewis-drive-hallway/ |website=High |publisher=The High Museum of Art |access-date=6 April 2025}}
The wareHouse, the Wieland Collection, Atlanta, GA{{cite web |title=Artist List |url=https://thewarehouse.org/artist-list/ |website=The Warehouse |access-date=6 April 2025}}