{"id":3669,"date":"2024-12-12T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T21:54:35","slug":"john-g-bullock-digital-collection-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/2024\/12\/12\/john-g-bullock-digital-collection-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"John G. Bullock digital collection now available"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: John G. Bullock. “Woman Standing in Rocks Overlooking Water Aug. 1890,” 1890. Digital positive from a gelatin silver dry plate negative, 8 x 10 in. John G. Bullock photographs, The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, P84-01-462. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Photographs from the John G. Bullock collection<\/a> are now available in the UMBC Digital Collections. Bullock was an American photographer who lived from 1854 to 1939. His work spanned four decades and is associated with the \u201cNew School\u201d of photography, which placed an emphasis on soft-focused images. Bullock\u2019s photographs showcase his life and surroundings as they were in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About John G. Bullock<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Image: John G. Bullock. “Marjorie, Bubbles Side View N.D.,” circa 1897. Digital positive from a gelatin silver dry plate negative, 8 x 10 in. John G. Bullock photographs, The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, P84-01-255. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

John Griscom Bullock was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1854. When he was only a child, he printed and published his own newspaper, City Journal<\/em>. After graduating from Haverford College and receiving his Ph.D. from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, he took an interest in photography in 1882. He joined the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in the same year and would go on to become its president.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His earliest photographs were taken with a small view camera that used 4×5 inch Carbutt dry plates while his earliest prints were made on albumen paper. Later on, Bullock switched to platinum paper which allowed him to manipulate the images. He would make these changes by retouching the negative to either change the images\u2019 tonality or add clouds onto a blank sky.  The Vienna Salon, an international photography exhibition, showcased two of Bullock\u2019s photographs. Afterwards, he worked with photographer Alfred Stieglitz on CameraWork<\/em>, to forward their cause of art photography or pictorial photography. More information about Bullock’s life can be found in UMBC’s online exhibition about Bullock’s photography<\/a> and the finding aid for the John G. Bullock collection<\/a> at Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Image: John G. Bullock. “New River Near Clarks Mills, Looking Up to East, Jul. 28, 1886,” 1886. Digital positive from a gelatin silver dry plate negative, 8 x 10 in. John G. Bullock photographs, The Photography Collections, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, P84-01-019. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

About the collection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The John G. Bullock collection<\/a> contains 1,154 images. UMBC Special Collections holds his original glass plate negatives and photography prints, in addition to some commissioned or made by UMBC. The collection comprises photographs that are divided into three sections: landscapes, portraits of family and friends, and rural scenery. Bullock\u2019s daughter Marjorie, is a recurring subject of his photography. His work is a prime example of pictorialism, with a greater focus placed on composition than truly representing reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can help us enrich the John G. Bullock collection<\/a> by providing additional details about the images. If you recognize a building, a person, or know further information about an image, please email Special Collections at speccoll@umbc.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post was written by Special Collections student assistant Jaiden Roda. Thank you, Jaiden!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographs from the John G. Bullock collection are now available in the UMBC Digital Collections. Bullock was an American photographer who lived from 1854 to 1939. His work spanned four decades and is associated with the \u201cNew School\u201d of photography, which placed an emphasis on soft-focused images. Bullock\u2019s photographs showcase his life and surroundings as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3682,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions\/3682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}