19 Facts About Wynn Bullock

Wynn Bullock was an American photographer whose work is included in over 90 major museum collections around the world.

Wynn Bullock received substantial critical acclaim during his lifetime, published numerous books and is mentioned in all the standard histories of modern photography.

Wynn Bullock 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.

Wynn Bullock then discovered the work of Man Ray and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and experienced an immediate affinity with photography, not only as an art form uniquely based on light, but as a vehicle through which he could more creatively engage with the world.

Wynn Bullock bought his first camera and began taking pictures.

Wynn Bullock stopped singing professionally, completed some pre-law courses at the state university, and continued to take photographs as a hobby.

In 1938, he moved his family back to Los Angeles and enrolled in law school at the University of Southern California where his mother Georgia Wynn Bullock had studied law.

From 1938 to 1940, Wynn Bullock became deeply involved in exploring alternative processes such as solarization and bas relief.

Remarried, and with a new daughter, Wynn Bullock traveled throughout California from 1945 to 1946, producing and selling postcard pictures while co-owning a commercial photographic business in Santa Maria.

Wynn Bullock worked on developing a way to control the line effect of solarization for which he later was awarded two patents.

Wynn Bullock left the concession in 1959, but continued commercial free-lance work until 1968.

Wynn Bullock married Mary Elizabeth McCarty in 1925; the marriage ended in divorce, in 1941.

Wynn Bullock married Edna Jeanette Earle in 1943 and they had two daughters: Barbara Ann and Lynne Marie.

Wynn Bullock was a lifelong student of philosophy, physics, general semantics, psychology, theology, spirituality and art.

Wynn Bullock obtained patents in the US, Canada, and Great Britain for a "Photographic Process for Producing Line Image" in the late 1940s.

Wynn Bullock was granted a second US patent on the "Methods and Means for Matching Opposing Densities in Photographic Film" in the early 1950s.

In 1968, Wynn Bullock became a trustee and chairman of the exhibition committee during the formative years of Friends of Photography in Carmel, California.

Wynn Bullock taught advanced photography courses at the Institute of Design in Chicago during Aaron Siskind's sabbatical and at San Francisco State College at the invitation of John Gutmann.

Wynn Bullock was a guest instructor for the Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshops.