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Wynn Bullock: Color Light Abstractions

Photographer Wynn Bullock (1902–75) was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Pasadena, California, and eventually settled on the Monterey Peninsula in the 1940s. Bullock's long career as a photographer was marked by an innate capacity for experimentation and a quest for deeper understanding of the natural world.

Bullock’s early career as a concert tenor led him through Europe in the mid-1920s where he was exposed to the work of Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy and experienced an immediate affinity with photography. Photography remained a hobby until 1938 when he enrolled in the Los Angeles Art Center School to pursue professional training. His work began to receive recognition shortly thereafter, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art organized his first solo exhibition in 1941. During the next several years, he focused his attention on both commercial and creative efforts. Although successful as a

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This discovery marked the beginning of a five-year period of intense creativity during which Bullock focused exclusively on producing what he called “color light abstractions.” To make these images, Bullock produced an apparatus that held a number of horizontal sheets of clear glass spaced evenly above one another.

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Wynn Bullock: Color Light Abstractions.

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When making these pictures, I use light not to make objects recognizable, but to create beautiful pictures in color, line, surfaces, texture, forms, and space.

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Color Light Abstractions.

Wynn Bullock: Color LIght Abstractions

Wynn Bullock, who's known primarily for his black and white landscape photography, also dabbled in abstract color.

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When making these pictures, I use light not to make objects recognizable, but to create beautiful pictures in color, line, surfaces, texture, forms, and space dimensions through the action of light as it strikes objects.

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To me that’s real, that’s no illusion.

Wynn Bullock Photography - Color Light Abstractions

Watch a slideshow of color light abstractions from photographic works by photographer Wynn the s, Bullock's continued attraction to the phenom.