Description
John G. Bullock (1854-1939) Signed Card, "John G. Bullock", 3.5 x 2, by one of the chief proponents of photography as a fine art. By virtue of his memberships in Philadelphia Photographic Society and the Photo-Secession under the leadership of Alfred Stieglitz, Bullock played a major role in the establishment of the institutional infrastructure for the promotion locally, nationally, and internationally of photography as a fine art form. He helped organize the three Philadelphia Photographic Salons of 1898-1900, which were the most artistic exhibitions of photographs at the time. His imagery focused on the landscape and rural life of the environs of Philadelphia. Bullock was a founding fellow of Alfred Stieglitz's exclusive group of pictorialists, the Photo-Secession. Stieglitz included Bullock's work in the Secession's inaugural exhibition of 1902 in New York City. "Like American painters who were converts to Impressionism, Pictorialist photographers such as John Bullock were open to using their medium in a new way. Bullock's work, usually printed in the delicate tones of platinum, represents the refined expression of the American naturalistic aesthetic. Many of his pastoral views evoke nostalgia for a past without the complexities of modern life." In fine condition.
$150 #11564
