Wynn Bullock

(b.1902 d.1975, USA)

 

 

 

·布洛克是一位摄影师、作家和教师,他留下的作品给一代又一代的摄影师带来灵感。

1902年,他出生于伊利诺伊州芝加哥的珀西·温菲尔德·布洛克家族中。二十几岁时,他曾将歌手作为自己的职业,持续时间不长,但备受赞誉,他也因此到了欧洲,并接触到印象派画家的杰作,以及拉兹洛·莫霍利·纳吉和曼·雷的摄影作品,发现了他们对于光、自然和人类形象表现方式的共同兴趣。随即他放弃了歌唱事业,并在余生光阴中致力于摄影创作。凭借他对科学以及摄影美学的执着,他革命性的开发了摄影技术,并为此获得了多项专利,例如控制负感作用中的线条效果等。到1941年,布洛克的作品获得了广泛的赞誉,洛杉矶郡美术馆为他举办了第一个个人作品展。

1948年,布洛克与爱德华·韦斯顿成为了好朋友,这是一段重要关系,韦斯顿为其介绍了8×10英寸的相机,这使得他能够探索和拍摄大苏尔、蒙特利和罗伯士角周围富有野性美的乡村于海岸线。同样,韦斯顿也促使他更加尊敬和依赖直接印相技术。这一时期的创作《上帝说要有光》,在爱德华·史泰钦标志性的展览《人类大家庭》中被观众票选为最杰出的作品。在所有作品中,布洛克坚持并实践着这样的想法:将摄影作为符号,以及将摄影作为对于我门周围和内部世界更广博知识的追问。他的作品被世界上八十多家博物馆和画廊永久收藏。温·布洛克逝世于1975年,他的档案馆位于亚利桑那州图森市的创意摄影中心。

Wynn Bullock was a catalytic teacher, writer, and member of the photographic community, whose legacy bas inspired generations of photographers.He was born Percy Wingfield Bullock in Chicago,Illinois, in 1902. A brief but acclaimed career as a concert vocalist in the late twenties took him to Europe, where be discovered the work of the Impressionists and the photographs of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray. Upon finding that be shared their interest in light and modes of representation of natural and human forms he abandoned singing and devoted himself to photography for the rest of his life. A successful businessman, who was fascinated by the scientific well as the aesthetic aspects of photography, he went on to develop and patent revolutionary techniques, such as the control of the line effect of solarization, By 1941, his work enjoyed critical acclaim, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had honored him with his first one-person show.In 1948 Bullock became close friends with Eduard Weston.The relationship would influence him profoundly, introducing him to the 8-by-10 inch camera, which led him to explore and photograph the untamed countryside and coastline around Big Sur, Monterey, and Point Lobos.Weston also moved him toward a greater respect for and reliance on the “straight print”. Let There Be Light, a photo-graph from this period, was voted by viewers the most outstanding image in Edward Steichen's landmark exhibition The Family of Man.In all his work Bullock was staunchly dedicated to the idea of the photograph-as-symbol and of photography as a quest for greater knowledge of the world around and within us.His photographs are in the permanent collections of over eighty museums and galleries worldwide.Wynn Bullock died in 1975.His archives are at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.

 

 

 

 

生平简介/ Biography

·布洛克(1902418 -  19751116日)出生于伊利诺伊州芝加哥市,并在加利福尼亚州南帕萨迪纳市长大。小的时候,他喜欢唱歌和体育运动(足球、棒球、游泳和网球)。高中毕业后,他来到纽约追求音乐事业,并被聘为欧文·柏林的音乐盒舞剧团的合唱团成员。有一次表演时主唱约翰·斯蒂尔无法按时到场,布洛克成为了男高音主唱,成为了公司的重要成员。

20世纪20年代中期,他来到欧洲拓展自己的职业机会,并在法国、德国和意大利学习声乐并举办音乐会。在巴黎生活的这段时间,他对印象派和后印象派的作品产生了兴趣,随后,他又看到了曼雷和拉兹洛·莫霍利·纳吉的作品,这把他引导向了摄影,这不仅只是一门关于光的艺术,而是一种媒介,借助它能以新的方式与世界接触。他买下了第一台相机并开始从事摄影创作。

20世纪30年代初的大萧条期间,温·布洛克结束了他的欧洲旅行并定居西弗吉尼亚州,管理他第一任妻子的家族事业。他放弃音乐学习,在州立大学完成了一些法律预科课程,并继续将摄影作为一项爱好。1938年,温·布洛克与其家人回到洛杉矶,并就读于南加州大学法学院,他的母亲乔治亚·布洛克(加州第一位女法学家)曾在那里学习法律。几周后,他不满这样的生活,离开了南加州大学,成为附近艺术中心学校的摄影系学生。

1938年到1940年,温·布洛克积极探索其他的摄影技术,比如负感作用和浮雕效果。从艺术中心毕业后,他实验性的作品在洛杉矶博物馆里展出,成为早期在此举办个人摄影作品展的艺术家之一。40年代初期,他曾担任商业摄影师,然后入伍参军。他不在军队服役,而被派任为飞机制造业拍照,首先任职于洛克希德,随后领导康纳斯乔伊斯的摄影部门直到战争结束。

1945年至1946年间,温·布洛克再婚,生下一个女儿,并游览加利福尼亚,生产和销售明信片照片,同时在圣玛利亚市拥有商业摄影业务。他同时也在开发一种控制负感作用中线条效果的方法,后来他以此申请到了两项专利。1946年,他与家人在蒙特利定居,并在奥德堡军事基地获得摄影特许权。1959年,他放弃这项特许权,并继续从事自由的商业创作,一直到1968年。

1948年成为温·布洛克摄影生涯中的重要转折点。这一年,他遇到了爱德华·韦斯顿,受到韦斯顿作品力量与美感的启示,他开始探索自己的直接印刷摄影作品。在整个20世纪50年代,他按照自己的意愿,深入、直接地接触自然。作为一名终身学习者,他还涉猎物理学,一般语义学,哲学,心理学,东方宗教和艺术领域,并研究爱因斯坦,科尔兹布斯基,怀特黑德,拉塞尔,老子和克利等人的作品,他不断发展自己的理念和方式,既反映又反哺了他的创作之旅。

20世纪50年代中期,爱德华·史泰钦选择他的两张照片作为现代艺术博物馆1955年的人类大家庭展览,温·布洛克的艺术性成为公众关注的焦点。在华盛顿特区的科克伦画廊,他的作品《上帝说:要有光》被评为最受欢迎的作品,另一幅《森林中的孩子》也成为展览中最令人难忘的形象之一。到50年代结束时,他的作品出现在了世界各地的许多展览和出版物中。

60年代初期,温·布洛克放弃黑白摄影,并制作了一系列他称为色光抽象的作品。对他而言,这些照片代表了对光的深入探索,表明他相信光是一切力量的核心,正如他所说:或许,这是宇宙中最深刻的真理。虽然他对这项工作抱有热情,但是事实证明这些创作是超前于时代的,一直过了50年,人们对其依旧一无所知。然而,在2008年,他的家庭成员开始对其原始的35mm柯达彩色胶片进行高分辨率扫面,生成稳定的打印图案,并在展览和出版物中发布。最后,正如温·布洛克所期望的一样,这项工作正在得到更广泛的传播和分享。

20世纪60年代中期,由于彩色印刷技术的局限性,温·布洛克重新制作黑白照片,继续扩大他的视野,创造那些含有其深刻哲学本质的创新形象。不同于他所谓的现实,可见物和已知物,从存在、事物的根本真理,他不断努力扩大自己的感知和理解能力,以便他能够更加接近他所经历的事物本质。找到更充分地唤起这种本质的手段也是他追求的关键部分,虽然他在他的一系列技术中包括了几种不同的替代方法(如极长时间曝光,叠印,上下颠倒和负片印刷),但每种方法都是象征着连接世界和认识世界的新方式。正如他曾经说过的那样,探索意味着一切 - 超越你所知道的。对探索的检验实际上是在事物本身,你想要理解的事物本身。重要的不是你对它们的看法,而是它们如何丰富了你。

70年代初期,温·布洛克开始了他新的创新旅程,他对这次的探索很投入,也很满意,但却被癌症疾病打断了。那段时期的许多作品都展示物体本质的光芒、生命的炽热和充满活力的搏动。其他照片以一种自然方式呈现,描绘或暗示人类的普遍品质、人类深深嵌入其中并与自然重新联合。

在他的职业生涯中,温·布洛克是一位活跃的讲师、研讨会负责人和老师,慷慨地将自己奉献给后来的追寻者。作为一名大师级摄影师,温·布洛克是五位档案留存在亚利桑那大学创意摄影中心艺术家之一。他的作品也被全世界90多个主要机构永久收藏中并大量被出版。作为一个向生命和宇宙发出最深刻的提问,并将摄影作为一种象征性语言,进一步发展以及记录他对意义的追求的人,他留下了丰富而重要的遗产,蕴含强大的力量启发和引领后人的创作。

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.

During the Great Depression of the early 1930s, Wynn stopped his European travels and settled in West Virginia to manage his first wife’s family business interests. He stopped singing professionally, completed some pre-law courses at the state university, and continued to take photographs as a hobby. In 1938, Wynn moved his family back to Los Angeles and enrolled in law school at the University of Southern California where his mother Georgia P. Bullock (California’s first woman jurist) had studied law. Completely dissatisfied after a few weeks, he left USC and became a student of photography at the nearby Art Center School.

From 1938 to 1940, Wynn became deeply involved in exploring alternative processes such as solarization and bas relief. After graduation from Art Center, his experimental work was exhibited in one of L.A. County Museum’s early solo photographic exhibitions. During the early 40s, he worked as a commercial photographer and then enlisted in the Army. Released from the military to photograph for the aircraft industry, he was first employed at Lockheed and then headed the photographic department of Connors-Joyce until the end of the war.

Remarried, and with a new daughter, Wynn traveled throughout California from 1945 to 1946, producing and selling postcard pictures while co-owning a commercial photographic business in Santa Maria. He also worked on developing a way to control the line effect of solarization for which he later was awarded two patents. In 1946, he settled with his family in Monterey where he had obtained the photographic concession at the Fort Ord military base. He left the concession in 1959, but continued commercial free-lance work until 1968.

A major turning point in Wynn’s life as a creative photographer occurred in 1948 when he met Edward Weston. Inspired by the power and beauty of Weston’s prints, he began to explore “straight” photography for himself. Throughout the decade of the 1950s, he devoted himself to developing his own vision, establishing deep, direct connections with nature. A lifelong learner, he also read widely in the areas of physics, general semantics, philosophy, psychology, eastern religion, and art. Studying the work of such people as Einstein, Korzybski, Whitehead, Russell, LaoTzu, and Klee, he kept evolving his own dynamic system of principles and concepts that both reflected and nurtured his creative journey.

In the mid-1950s, Wynn’s artistry came into the public spotlight when Edward Steichen chose two of his photographs to include in the 1955 “Family of Man” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. At the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, his photograph “Let There Be Light,” was voted the most popular of the show. The second, “Child in Forest,” became one of the exhibition’s most memorable images. By the end of that decade, his work was being featured in many exhibitions and publications worldwide.

During the early 60s, Wynn departed from black and white imagery and produced a major body of work that he referred to as “Color Light Abstractions”. For him, these photographs represented an in-depth exploration of light, manifesting his belief that light is a great force at the heart of all being, “perhaps,” as he said, “the most profound truth in the universe.” Although he was tremendously excited about this work, it proved to be ahead of its time in terms of available resources to reproduce it, and it remained largely unknown for almost 50 years. In 2008, however, the family estate started making high-resolution scans of his original 35mm Kodachrome slides, producing archivally stable prints, and exhibiting and publishing the imagery. Finally, the work is being shared more widely as Wynn had long hoped would happen .

In the mid-1960s, frustrated by the limitations of color printing technology, Wynn returned to making black and white photographs, continuing to expand his vision to create innovative images that reflected his deeply 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. 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. As he once said, “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.”

In the early 70s, Wynn 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.

Throughout his career, Wynn was an active lecturer, workshop leader, and teacher, generously giving of himself to fellow seekers. As a master photographer, Wynn was one of five artists whose archives established the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography. His work may also be found in the permanent collections of over 90 major institutions throughout the world as well as in numerous publications. As a person who asked the deepest questions about life and the universe and who used photography as a symbolic language to further as well as document his search for meaning, he left a legacy rich and vital in its power to inspire and transform.

 

 

 

艺术风格 / Artistic Style 

 

·布洛克在其一生的艺术成就中,创造了一些富有远见的作品,这个作品最能被描述为超越性。在那些追寻美的形象中,他探索了时间与空间的不可言说性、在平静的现实表面下流动的神秘、以及存在本身矛盾却又引人注目的本质。

对于布洛克来说,光是宇宙以及他的摄影创作中最重要的原则。通过融合摄影与哲学、科学、物理和美学,他相信事物的形状和形成它们的现实的不同方面可以被揭示出来。那些关于儿童、女性形体和原始景观的发光图像,展示了宇宙之梦的幻象。他的黑白抽象作品超越了线条和阴影的束缚,接近纯粹的能量,所有这些都描绘了内部的思想世界与外部的事物世界之间的内在关系。正如他说的:光是一切的源泉。 它让眼前的事物可见,它让岩石结合在一起。 我一直坚信并受这样的信念影响:万物都是光能的某种组成形式, 光可能是宇宙中最深刻的真理。

 

Through a long career of artistic distinction, Wynn Bullock produced a visionary body of work that can best be described as transcendent. In images of haunting beauty he explored the ineffability of time and space, the mystery moving beneath the static surface of reality, and the contradictory and compelling nature of existence itself. 

 

To Bullock, light was the first principle of the universe as well as of his camera. Through a fusion of photography with philosophy, science, physics, and aesthetics, he believed that the shapes of things and the different aspects of reality that shaped them could be revealed. His luminous images of children and female nudes and of primeval landscapes suggest the phantasms of a cosmos dreaming. His black-and-white abstractions rise above the strictures of line and shadow to approach the realm of pure energy. All depict the immanent relationship between the inner world of ideas and the outer world of events. As he said:"Light is the source of everything. It is what makes things visible to the eye, it is also what holds a rock together. My thinking has been deeply affected by the belief that all things are some form of radiant energy. Light is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe.”

 

 

 

 

 

著作 / Literature 

Three photographers: Wynn bullock, edmund teske, frederick sommer. (1967). NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA: SAN FERNANDO VALLEY State COLLEGE.

Bullock, W., & San Francisco Museum of Art. (1969). Wynn Bullock: Photographs : San Francisco Museum of Art, November 25, 1969 to January 4, 1970.

San Francisco Museum of Art. (1970). Wynn Bullock: Photographs. San Francisco: The Museum.

Friends of Photography., & Bullock, W. (1970). Discovery: Inner and outer worlds. Carmel: Friends of Photography.

Bullock, W., & De Saisset Museum. (1972). Twenty color photographs: Light abstractions. Santa Clara, Calif: De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara.

Bullock, W., & Bullock-Wilson, B. (1973). Wynn Bullock, photography: A way of life. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y: Morgan & Morgan.

Bullock, W., Bender, R., & Nordby, W. (1975). Wynn Bullock: Last tape interviews 1975. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified.

Bullock, W., & Fuess, D. (1976). Wynn Bullock. London: Gordon Fraser.

Bullock, W. (1977). Darkroom. New York: Lustrum Press.

Freeburg, G. L. (1978). Wynn Bullock, the nude in photography.

Bullock, W., & Bullock, E. (1979). The concepts and principles of Wynn Bullock. Chicago: Gilbert Gallery.

Dilley, Clyde H. The Photography and Philosophy of Wynn Bullock. , 1980. Print.

University of Arizona., Lamb, C., & Ludlow, C. (1982). Wynn Bullock Archive. Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona.

Bullock, W. (1993). Wynn Bullock: The enchanted landscape, photographs 1940-1975. New York, N.Y: Aperture Foundation.

Johnson, C., & Bullock-Wilson, B. (2001). Wynn Bullock. London: Phaidon.

 

 

 

 展览 / Exhibition 

 

2019

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (Wynn's and Edna's work among others)

Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA (Edna's work among others)

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (Wynn's and Edna's work among others)

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Independent Photographers Group, Pacific Grove, CA  (Wynn Bullock: Searching Is Everything, a PowerPoint presentation with a display of contemporary fine art, limited edition prints)

Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel, CA

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA  (Wynn in 2 group shows; Edna in one)

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (continuation of Edna's solo show)

Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsburg, CA (vintage work as well as contemporary prints)

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA  (8th showing of CLA traveling exhibit; concurrent with black-and-white abstract work by Robert Strizich; 2nd presentation of PowerPoint talk)

SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA

Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA

 

2018

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (both Wynn's and Edna's work)

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (both Wynn's and Edna's work)

Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa (final venue for the traveling Revelations exhibition )

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel, CA

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (solo show of Edna's work)

Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Photo Gallery International (PGI), Tokyo, Japan

Post Gallery, Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, CA
(combination of contemporary fine art, limited edition prints and signed original work)

Post Gallery, Post Ranch Inn, Big Sur, CA (Edna's work)

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

2017

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (includes both Wynn's and Edna's work)

 

Art Libraries Society of North America, New Orleans, LA 

(Relativity: Wynn Bullock and Albert Einstein book exhibit)

AIPAD, New York, NY (Relativity… book exhibit)

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (continuing from 2016)

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (Revelations exhibition on tour)

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (Edna's work)

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA (Wynn's and Edna's work)

CODEX Book Fair, Richmond, CA (Relativity…book exhibit)

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL (Edna's work)

Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel, CA

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (Edna's work continuing from 2016)

NCV, Houston, TX (continuing from 2016)

Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA (Relativity…book exhibit)

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA (Edna's work)

Society for Photographic Education, Orlando, FL (Relativity…book exhibit)

University of Maryland Art Gallery (Revelations exhibition on tour)

 

2016

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ

Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ (continuing from 2015)

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Del Mesa Art Gallery, Carmel, CA

Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY

Marjorie Evans Gallery, Carmel, CA

Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA (Edna Bullock photo)

NCV, Houston, TX

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (continuing from 2015)

Scheinbaum and Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, NM

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA (concurrent solo shows with Morley Baer)

Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA

Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, Carmel, CA

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA

2015

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (both black-and-white and color work)

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ (group exhibit curated by Rfotofolio)

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Fundación Canal, Madrid, Spain

Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia (1st solo show of work in Russia)

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

SFO Museum, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA (both black-and-white and color work)

Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA

 

2014

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN

Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College, UC Santa Cruz, CA
(6th showing of Color Light Abstraction traveling exhibit)

Lumière Fine Art Photography Gallery, Atlanta, GA

 

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 

(Wynn Bullock: Revelations is the most important exhibition of Wynn's work to be mounted by a major US museum in 40 years; see “Exhibition Highlights” for more information)

Photo History Museum, Fujifilm Square, Tokyo, Japan

Science Museum, London, England

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Special Collections and Archives, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz, CA (with Edna)

 

2013

Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Family of Man Museum, Château de Clervaux, Clervaux, Luxembourg

Fondazione Fotografia, Ex Ospedale Sant’ Agostino, Modena, Italy

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Museum of Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka City, Japan

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

(5th showing of Color Light Abstraction traveling exhibit)

Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA

2012

Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA

Emerald Art Center, Springfield, OR

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Lumiere Fine Art Photography Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Monterey Museum of Art at La Mirada, Monterey, CA

 

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, West Palm Beach, FL 

(4th showing of Color Light Abstraction traveling exhibit; wife Edna’s work displayed in adjunct exhibit)

Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA

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2011

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA

Spectrum Gallery, Fresno, CA (3rd showing of CLA traveling exhibit)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, CA

 

2010

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

(2nd showing of CLA traveling exhibit)

 

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA 

(premiere of traveling exhibit dedicated to new prints of Wynn’s Color Light Abstractions)

Dali International Photo Festival, Yunnan Province, China

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

 

See+ Art Space/Gallery, Beijing, China 

 

(with Harold Feinstein; first Wynn Bullock exhibition in mainland China; 

both color and black & white images)

 

2009

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Del Mesa Clubhouse Gallery, Carmel, CA (both color and black & white images)

 

Lumiere Fine Art Photography Gallery, Atlanta, GA 

(three-person exhibition that introduced new Color Light Abstraction prints)

 

2008

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

2007

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

 

2006

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

 

2005

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY

 

2004

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

 

2003

Robert Mann Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Pace/McGill Gallery, New York, NY

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY  

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2001

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

 

1998

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

1996

G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

 

1994

Ansel Adams Gallery, Pebble Beach, CA

Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

 

1993

Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (with Edna)

Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, MI (with Edna)

Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (Edna’s work also included)

Photo Forum, Pittsburgh, PA (with Edna)

PhotoZone Gallery, Eugene OR (with Edna)

 

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 

(Fotofeis 93 exhibit with Edna; Bullock show was lead exhibition of festival)

1992

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

1990

Foto Galerie, Chinoteague, VA (with Edna)

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

 

1989

Expo 90 Photo Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

The Photographic Center, Carmel, CA

 

1988

International Center for Photography, New York, NY

Galerie Le Réverbère Photographique, Lyon, France

Musée Saint Pierre, Lyon, France

Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan

 

1987

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (traveling exhibition)

Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA (with Edna)

 

1986

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan (with Edward Steichen)

Photography at Oregon Gallery, Eugene, OR (with Edna)

Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT (with Edna)

 

1985

Bank of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Barbican Art Gallery, London, England (traveling exhibition)

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan (with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston)

Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA (with Edna)

 

1984

Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (traveling exhibition)

 

1983

Ledel Galery, New York, NY (with Edna)

Montana Historical Society, Helena, MT (with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston)

Neikrug Gallery, New York, NY (with Edna)

Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico (with Edna)

 

1982

Collector’s Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

Exposures Gallery, Libertyville, IL (with Edna)

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Jeb Gallery, Providence, RI (with Edna)

Photography West Gallery, Carmel, CA

 

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1981

Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago, IL

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA    (with Edna Bullock)

San Jose City College, San Jose, CA    (with Edna Bullock)

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan

 

1980

Collector’s Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA (with Edna)

Eclipse Gallery, Boulder, CO

International Center of Photography, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)

Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami, FL

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

 

1979

Cody’s Gallery, Berkeley, CA

Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL

Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, Japan

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

 

1978

Galerie Fiolet, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Pallas Photographic Gallery, Chicago, IL

Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA

Tokyo Designers Space, Tokyo, Japan

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

 

1977

Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

Photographers’ Gallery & Workshop, South Yarra, Australia

Silver Image Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

 

1976

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Déjà Vu Gallery, Toronto, Canada

G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

 

1975

Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville, KY

 

de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA 

(part of memorial celebration of Wynn’s life; featured 20 original CLA prints)

Royal Photographic Society, London, England

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, Tokyo, Japan

Shado Gallery, Oregon City, OR

Shunju Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (traveling exhibition)

 

1974

Bucharest International Fair, Bucharest, Romania

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France

Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Silver Image Gallery, Seattle, WA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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1973

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

Edison University, Salt Lake City, Utah

Light Gallery, New York, NY

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Galerie Lichttropfen, Aachen, West Germany 

(9 American photographers, including Andre Kertesz, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White)

Museo Civico di Torino, Turin, Italy

Ohio University, Athens, OH

Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA (with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston)

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

 

1972

 

de Saisset Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA 

(1st significant exhibit of original Color Light Abstraction prints, along with set of black and white photographs; color prints donated to museum after show)

Eikon Gallery, Monterey, CA

Limited Image Gallery, Chicago, IL

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

North Shore Community College, Beverly, MA

Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Rockford Art Association, Rockford, IL

Shado Gallery, Oregon City, OR

United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C.

(solo traveling exhibition, including venues in Reykjavik, London, Paris, Bonn, Ankara, Jidda, and Tunis)

 

1971

Bathhouse Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Department of Art, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

Hiram College, Hiram, OH

Light Gallery, New York, NY

Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD

Moorehead State College, Moorehead, MN

Museum of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

The 831 Gallery, Birmingham, MI

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 

1970

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX

Central Missouri State University, Warrenshburg, CO

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO

de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA

Ferris State College, Big Rapids, WI

Long Island University, Greenville, NY

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

Rice University, Houston, TX

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

1969

de Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA

Institute of Design, Chicago, IL

Phoenix College, Phoenix, AZ

Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

University of the South, Sewanee, TN

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Witkin Gallery, New York, NY

 

1968

Camera Work Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

Canton Jewish Center, Canton, OH

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Exchange National Bank, Chicago, IL

Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

Melrose Library, Melrose, MA

Pacific Grove Art Museum, Pacific Grove, CA

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Riverside College, Riverside, CA

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

University of St. Thomas Media Center, Houston, TX

 

1967

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA (co-sponsored by Oakland Art Museum)

Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL

Reed College, Portland, OR

 

1966

Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH   

Foothill College, Los Altos, CA  

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1965

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1964

Coast Gallery, Big Sur, CA (with Walter Chappell)

George Eastman House Museum at the New York State Exposition, Syracuse, NY

State University College, Buffalo, NY

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

1963

Fresno State College, Fresno, CA

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN

IV Mostra Biennale Internazionale della Fotografia, Venice, Italy

Toren Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Tucson Art Center, Tucson, AZ

 

1962

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, MA

Cheney Cowles Memorial Art Gallery, Spokane, WA

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (“Towards Abstraction” slide exhibit)

Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Photo-Ciné Club du Val de Bièvre, Paris, France

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Schuman Gallery, Rochester, NY

Terrain Gallery, New York, NY

 

1961

Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

Fine Arts Galerie Pierre Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium

Icon Gallery, Venice, CA

Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, MI (with Aaron Siskind and David Vestal)

Venice Festival of Arts, Venice, Italy

 

1960

Art Center of Northern New Jersey, Englewood, NJ

Gateway Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

Iris Photographic Association, Antwerp, Belgium

Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

 

1959

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Gull Pacific Arts Gallery, Richmond, CA

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Limelight Gallery, New York, NY

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

 

1958

Art Center of Czechoslovakia, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

State School of Arts and Crafts. Saarbrücken, Germany

 

1957

Oakland Public Museum, Oakland, CA

Photo-Cine-Club du Val de Bièvre, Paris, France

 

Photographia de Assouacao dos Yelhos, Pietermaritzburg and Lourenço Marques, 

Portuguese East Africa [Mozambique]

 

The Johannesburg Photographic and Cine Society, Johannesburg, South Africa 

(also Cape Town, Durban, and East London, South Africa; and Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe])

 

1956

Cherry Foundation Art Gallery, Carmel, CA

George Eastman House, Rochester, NY

Kurland Art Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

 

1955

Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA

Limelight Gallery, New York, NY

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

 

(The Family of Man exhibition which traveled to 38 countries around the world; 

now permanently installed at Château de Clervaux, Clervaux, Luxembourg)

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1954

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

State School of Arts and Crafts, Saarbrücken, Germany

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

 

1947

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1941

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA    (first solo show)