American photographer. Bullock was born in Chicago in 1902 and moved to New York City in the early 1920s to study voice at Columbia University and to pursue a career as a concert tenor. He toured Europe for music, and was exposed to developments in the visual arts. Upon his return to the United States in 1931, he briefly studied law; however, he decided that his vocation lay in photography and instead enrolled at the Los Angeles Art Center. His early work—mainly solarizations, in which the image is partly negative and partly positive—was strongly influenced by the avant-garde experiments of László Moholy-Nagy. His subject matter includes seascapes, landscapes, and nudes. His work also dealt with the larger visual metaphors such as the passing of time and the inevitability of death.
