Wynn Bullock Art
American, 1902-1975
Wynn Bullock (1902 – 1975) began his photographic career at the age of 42 studying at the Art Center School in Los Angeles, California. A lifelong friend of Edward Weston, his work and influence thrived in Bullock's photographs and in 1968, he became a trustee and chairman of the exhibition committee during the formative years of Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. Bullock is recognized as an American master photographer of the 20th Century. His work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world including The Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Hallmark Collection of Photography and The Center for Creative Photography. "Searching is everything - going beyond what you know. And the test of the search is really in the things themselves, the things you seek to understand. What is important is not what you think about them, but how they enlarge you."
~ Wynn Bullock(Biography provided by Weston Gallery)
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Artist: Wynn Bullock
Child in Forest
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the back of the mount. Published in: Wynn Bullock: (The Scrimshaw Press, Publication No. 8). An example sold at abroad for $35,000.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Weston Beach, 1958
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Weston Beach by Wynn Bullock was made in 1958. This photograph was printed in the 1970s and is signed on the front of the mount and titled on the back. It is in pristine condition an...
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Unmarked Grave, 1969
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on mount verso. Titled and dated on recto.
Gelatin Silver Print
Image - 7.5"x9.5", Mount 15 x 13", Mat 20" x 16"
Category
1960s Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ocean and Setting Sun, 1957
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
Image - 7.5"x9.5", Mounted - 13"x15", Matted - 16"x20"
Category
1950s Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horsetails and Log, 1957 (Printed before 1965)
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Horsetails and Log, 1957 (Printed before 1965)
Signed in pencil on recto, titled and dated on verso
Silver gelatin print
Image - 7.5"x9.5", Mount - 13"x15", Matted - 16"x20"
Category
1950s Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman Behind Cobwebbed Window
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Wynn Bullock (1902 – 1975) was born in Chicago and raised in South Pasadena, California. His early career was as a singer, and following high school he moved to New York where he performed in the chorus of Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue and later with the show’s Road Company. During the mid-1920s, while performing in Europe, he became fascinated with artworks by Cezanne, Man Ray, and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy. Bullock once wrote, “My first ambition was to become a concert singer….But interpreting others’ creative work did not satisfy my own creative impulses and so I turned to photography.” Bullock bought a simple box camera and launched into amateur picture making.
In 1938 Bullock enrolled at the Los Angeles Art Center School. Three years later, his work was showcased in one of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's early solo photography exhibitions. During the 1940s, he conducted pioneering research to control the effect of solarization (a darkroom process for altering an image) and was awarded patents in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain for a “Photographic Process for Producing Line Image.”
Bullock was deeply inspired by fellow photographer Edward Weston, who he met in 1948, and Weston’s work motivated him to investigate straight photography. Throughout the 1950s, Bullock clarified his unique point of view, establishing a deep, direct connection with nature. A lifelong learner, he also read widely in the areas of physics, general semantics, philosophy, psychology, Eastern religion, and art.
Bullock came into the public spotlight when Museum of Modern Art curator Edward Steichen chose two of his photographs for the 1955 Family of Man exhibition. When the exhibition was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., his photograph Let There Be Light, was voted most popular. The second, Child in Forest, became one of the exhibition’s most memorable images. By the end of that decade, his work was widely exhibited and published worldwide and in 1957, he was honored with a medal from the Salon of International Photography.
During the early 1960s, Bullock departed from the black-and-white imagery for which he was known and produced a major body of work, Color Light Abstractions, which expressed his belief that light is a great force at the heart of all being. Further image-making innovation included alternative approaches including extended time exposures, photograms, and negative printing.
During the 1960s and 1970s Bullock expanded his influence through other roles. In 1968, he became a trustee and chairman of the exhibition committee during formative years at Friends of Photography in Carmel, California. He taught advanced photography courses at Chicago’s Institute of Design during Aaron Siskind’s sabbatical and at San Francisco State College at John Gutmann’s invitation. In the last decades of his life, he lectured widely, participated in many photographic seminars and symposia, and was a guest instructor for the Ansel Adams Yosemite...
Category
1950s Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tree Trunk ~ Negative Print
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount. Titled on the back. Printed in 1972. Paper mount size: 13 1/4 x 15 inches.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Night Scene 1956
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Point Lobos Rock 1973
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Leaves and Cobwebs, 1969
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pilings Under Cannery Row
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Tail Lights 1968
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Woman with Dog in Forest
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount. Printed in the 1960's.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Del Monte Forest 1956
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Solarized Head
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lynne Point Lobos
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Child and the Unknown
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Burried in Sand 1968
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nude Photogram
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cactus
By Wynn Bullock
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Signed on the front of the mount by the artist.
Category
20th Century Wynn Bullock Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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