Source
Wynn Bullock
Citation
Wynn Bullock. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-19 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynn_Bullock.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used for birth/death date tokens (April 18, 1902 / November 16, 1975), Chicago birthplace, Monterey death, career narrative, and Family of Man inclusion claim, all of which are corroborated by Britannica (src-britannica-wynn-bullock, fetched 2026-05-19) and consistent with the CCP archive stub (src-ccp-bullock-archive, verified: false).
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from the article (fetched 2026-05-19):
- “April 18, 1902, Chicago, Illinois” / “November 16, 1975, Monterey, California (aged 73)”
- “In 1955, curator Edward Steichen selected two of Bullock’s photographs for the landmark The Family of Man exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. His photograph ‘Let There Be Light’ was voted most popular at the Corcoran Gallery showing, while ‘Child in Forest’ became one of the exhibition’s most memorable images.”
- “Light to me is perhaps the most profound truth in the universe.” (attributed to Bullock)
- Career: performed in Irving Berlin’s Music Box Revue 1920s; discovered photography via Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy in Paris; studied Art Center School LA 1938–1940; work appears in over 90 major museum collections worldwide.
Notes
- Two-source corroboration on birth/death dates: Wikipedia and Britannica (both fetched 2026-05-19) agree on April 18, 1902 / November 16, 1975.
- The title “Let There Be Light” for photo-0002 is reported by this Wikipedia article as a secondary claim; the MoMA Master Checklist itself does not record a title (see photo-0002 notes).
- Wikipedia references cited: CCP Arizona archive, MoMA archives, wynnbullock.com, published monographs.