Wynn Bullock: Revelations

This exhibition represents the most comprehensive assessment of photographer Wynn Bullock’s (1902-1975) extraordinary career in nearly 40 years and is the first major exhibition of his work to be held in Iowa. 

Bullock’s artistic practice was guided by an interest in the mid-20th-century dialogue about the structure of the universe and humanity’s place within it. Drawn to the spirit of experimentation that marked scientific and philosophical endeavors of his day, Bullock used his knowledge of quantum physics, special relativity and the space-time continuum as a reference point for his own intuitive and personal explorations of the world.

Bullock worked in the American Modernist tradition alongside his colleagues and friends Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Ansel Adams. He garnered enormous acclaim during his lifetime, yet the breadth of his career has remained largely in the shadows since his death in 1975. The exhibition surveys the arc of Bullock’s innovative achievements in more than 70 vintage prints, which include early experimental works of the 1940s to his late metaphysical photographs of the 1970s.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website