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June 11, 2008

An example of romanticism and photography?

BullockWynn.jpg Wynn Bullock, Driftwood Tree Trunk, 195, silver gelatin print

A mystical sensibility underlies most of Bullock’s work in his treatment of both the landscape, in which he uses long exposures to create primordial dreamlike vistas and in his close-ups of trees and rocks which often reveal masks and bodylike forms.

Does the mystical sensibility signify romanticism?

BullockWTheLimpet.jpg Wynn Bullock, The Limpet, 1969 , Gelatin silver print

So what would romanticism look like in an urban photography?Would it focus on decay and destruction?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 10:54 PM | | Comments (2)
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I cannot stand all the passive nude women lying around in nature in Bullock's landscape shots. nude woman are of nature and not persons in society.

Pam,
I agree.The 1950s American art photography was often about the landscape, nude women and transcendentalism. Still the standard foil to enlightenment is religion.