Wynn Bullock was one of the most significant photographers of the mid-twentieth century. A close friend of influential West Coast artists Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and a contemporary of Minor White and Frederick Sommer, Bullock created work marked by a distinct interest in experimentation, abstraction, and philosophical exploration. Bullock's photography received early recognition in 1941, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art staged his first solo exhibition. His mature work appeared in one-man shows at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; the Royal Photographic Society, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other prestigious venues. Bullock's pictures Let There Be Light and Child in Forest have become icons in the history of photography, following their prominent inclusion in Edward Steichen's landmark 1955 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man.
Wynn Bullock: Revelations offers the most comprehensive assessment of the photographer's extraordinary career in nearly forty years. Produced by the High Museum of Art in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography to accompany a traveling exhibition, this retrospective traces Bullock's evolution from his early experimental work of the 1940s, through the mysterious black-and-white imagery of the 1950s and the color light abstractions of the 1960s, to his late metaphysical photographs of the 1970s. The book presents 110 images, including some from the Bullock estate that have never been published before. An essay by the High's Curator of Photography Brett Abbott explores the nuances of Bullock's approach to photography and its fascinating relationship to the history of science and philosophy. The volume also includes an illustrated chronology, a bibliography, selected collections, an exhibitions history, a plates list, and notes.
Despite early acclaim, the true breadth and depth of Bullock's career have remained largely in the shadows. Wynn Bullock: Revelations shines new light on this major photographer.

Wynn Bullock: Revelations

Arts & Photography

Abbott, Brett

Kelly, Maria

High Museum Of Art

Bullock-Wilson, Barbara

Photography & Video

University of Texas Press

Five Great American Photographers Boxed Set: Matthew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Lewis Baltz (55s)

Johnson, Chris

SANTE, Luc

HILL, Paul

Rian, Jeff

Panzer, Mary

Individual Artists

Phaidon Press

Photographs by Wynn Bullock. Text by Barbara Bullock-Wilson. Includes a list of plates, a biography, bibliography, exhibition history and collections.

Wynn Bullock Photography: A Way of Life

Morgan Morgan

Wynn Bullock Photographing the Nude: The Beginnings of a Quest for Meaning

Gibbs-Smith

Edna's Nudes

Capra Pr

``Wynn Bullock (1902-1975) was an American photographer, who in 70's frustrated by the limitations of color printing technology, returned to making black-and-white photographs, continuing to expand his vision to create innovative images that reflected his philosophical nature. Differentiating what he termed 'reality', the visible and the known, from 'existence', the underlying truth of things, he was ceaseless in his attempts to expand his own faculties of perception and understanding so he could come ever closer in his experiences to the essence of things. Finding the means to more fully evoke that essence was also a key part of his quest.[7] Although he included several different alternative processes (extremely long time exposures, multiple images, up-side-down and negative printing) in his repertoire of techniques, each was always used in the service of symbolizing new ways of relating to and knowing the world. In the early 70s, Bullock started on a new leg of his creative journey, one that he found completely absorbing and deeply satisfying but which was cut short by incurable cancer. Many of his photographs from that period reveal light emanating from within the heart of things, life glowing and pulsing with energy and vitality. Other photographs are of natural forms that depict or suggest universal human qualities, humanity "deeply embedded in" and re-united with nature."

Wynn Bullock (The Scrimshaw Press, Publication No. 8)

Scrimshaw Press

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