James Welling, American, 1951- James Welling first became known for his project Diary of Elizabeth C. Dixon, 1840-41 (1822-72)/Connecticut Landscapes (1977-86). As the title suggests, Welling took for his subject a young woman's 19th-century travel diary, making intimate closeup photographs of pages filled with handwritten script, desiccated leaves, ferns, and other mementos. This retrospective u