Laurence Miller Gallery Exhibition                                     November 1 - January 5, 2002

 Wynn Bullock: Realities and Metaphors

Opening November 1, Laurence Miller Gallery will present the first one-person exhibit of the photographs of Wynn Bullock in New York since his 1976 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Realities and Metaphors will feature over forty mostly vintage prints spanning Bullock’s lengthy career, beginning with late 1930’s nude solarizations and continuing up through his last nature close-ups made in the early 1970’s.

As Keith Davis has written in the catalog that accompanies the exhibition, "The world Bullock shows us is at once enticing and alien, calm and relentless. Humans are inevitably of this world, but the exact nature of their belonging is not simple." Whether it be his famous Child in Forest, 1951, or Woman and Dog in Forest, 1953, Bullock presents a "humanity without sin in a world without danger."

A mystical sensibility underlies most of Bullock’s work. This is evident in his treatment of both the landscape, in which he uses long exposures to create primordial dreamlike vistas (Sea Palms, 1968), and in his close-ups of trees and rocks (Eroded Wood, 1970), which often reveal masks and bodylike forms.

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Sand and Debris, 1952
7 1/2 x 9 1/2" 
gelatin silver print

 

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Driftwood, 1951
14 3/4 x 19"
gelatin silver print

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Decaying Boot in Sand, 1953
7 1/2 x 9 1/2"
vintage gelatin silver print

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Barbara on Pebble Beach, c.1940's
7 1/2 x 9 1/2" gelatin silver print

 

 
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The Logs, 1957
6 x 9 1/2"
gelatin silver print

 

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Mendolino Coast, 1968
7 1/2 x 9 1/2"
gelatin silver print

 

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Point Lobos, Tide Pool, 1957
7 5/8 x 9 1/2" gelatin silver print

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Stark Tree, 1956
7 1/4 x 9 1/4"
gelatin silver print

 

 
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Photogram, 1970
7 1/2 x 9 5/8"
gelatin silver print

 

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Untitled, 1972
8 x 6 7/8"
gelatin silver print

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Eroded Wood, 1970
9 x 7 1/2"
gelatin silver print

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Nude Photogram, 1970
9 1/4 x 7 1/2"
vintae gelatin silver print

 

 
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Solarized Portrait, 1940
13 1/2 x 10 1/2"
gelatin silver print

 

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Solarized Portrait, 1942
7 3/4 x 6 3/4"
vintage gelatin silver print

 

 

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