Feb 13 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2694 -

Sale 2694 - Lot 15

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
WYNN BULLOCK (1902-1975)
Tide Pool, Point Lobos. 1957.
Silver print, the image measuring 7½x9½ inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with Bullock's Monterey credit stamp and the notation "#13 Space" in pencil on verso.

Provenance
Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak

As his daughter Barbara notes, "Point Lobos Tide Pool, 1957 is another serendipitous image that took place on the [Point Lobos State] Reserve. The day this photograph was made, Dad was hauling his heavy field camera along the South Shore Trail when he happened upon a tide pool with a galaxy in its midst. He set up his equipment as quickly as he could and made his first exposure. Normally, he liked to bracket his exposures, but before he could make a second one, a gust of wind swept across the pool and the complex pattern of microscopic organisms vanished.

Fortunately, one exposure was good enough. Whenever he told the story, Dad would laugh and say, "I was just damn lucky that day!" What he often left unexpressed was the lasting impression of the experience that exemplified for him the continual being-and-becoming nature of the universe as well as the kinship of its microcosmic and macrocosmic dimensions. The image remained a personal favorite for the rest of his life." (Barbara Bullock-Wilson. "Point Lobos Tide Pool, 1957" Commentary © 2013/2015 Barbara Bullock-Wilson for ArtBlat)

Reproduced Eleanor Lewis, Darkroom (Lustrum Press), 1976
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