Wynn bullock artist biography

 

Wynn Bullock (April 18, 1902 – November, 16, 1975) was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in South Pasadena, California. As a boy, his passions were singing and athletics (football, baseball, swimming, and tennis). After high school graduation, he moved to New York to pursue a musical career and was hired as a chorus member in Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue. He occasionally sang the primary tenor role when headliner John Steele was unable to appear and then was given a major role with the Music Box Review Road Company. 

During the mid-1920s, he furthered his career in Europe, studying voice and giving concerts in France, Germany, and Italy. While living in Paris, he became fascinated with the work of the Impressionists and post-Impressionists. He then discovered the work of Man Ray and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy and experienced an immediate affinity with photography, not only as an art form uniquely based on light, but also as a vehicle through which he could more creatively engage with the world. He bought his first camera and began taking pictures.

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Wynn Bullock

Wynn Bullock was born Percy Wingfield Bullock in Chicago in 1902, and was raised in South Pasadena, California. His first career choice was singing, and during the mid-twenties he performed as a tenor in New York City and Europe before becoming fascinated with European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.  Then he discovered the work of Man Ray and Moholy–Nagy and bought his first camera. In the late 1930s, Bullock studied under Edward Kaminski at the Art Center School, Los Angeles, and became deeply interested in alternative processes.  After graduation he worked as a commercial photographer before enlisting in the Army, which released Bullock to photograph for the aircraft industry in support of the war effort.  In 1948 Bullock met and was influenced by Edward Weston, and spent the 1950s developing his own vision; one deeply connected to nature. Edward Steichen chose two of Bullock’s prints for The Family of Man exhibition in 1955.  By the end of that decade, the artist was being featured in exhibitions and publications worldwide.&n

Wynn Bullock

American photographer

Wynn Bullock (April 18, 1902 – November 16, 1975) was an American photographer whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world.[1] He received substantial critical acclaim during his lifetime, published numerous books and is mentioned in all the standard histories of modern photography.[2]

Life and career

Early career in music

Bullock was born in Chicago and raised in South Pasadena, California. As a boy, his passions were singing and athletics (football, baseball, swimming and tennis). After high school graduation, he moved to New York to pursue a musical career and was hired as a chorus member in Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue. He occasionally sang the primary tenor role when headliner John Steele was unable to appear and then was given a major role with the Music Box Review Road Company. During the mid-1920s, he furthered his career in Europe, studying voice and giving concerts in France, Germany and Italy.

While living in Paris, Bullock became fascinated with the work

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