Carl Oswald Bulla

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Karl Oswald Bulla with his sons Alexander and Wiktor

Carl Oswald Bulla ( Russian Карл Карлович Булла ; born February 26, 1855 in Leobschütz , Leobschütz district , province of Silesia ; † November 28, 1929 in Dorf Iide on the island of Ösel ) was a German photographer .

Life

Carl Oswald Bulla is considered to be the founder of Russian photo reportage. Between 1890 and 1900 he opened a photo agency in St. Petersburg . After the First World War he settled in Estonia . His son Viktor Karlowitsch Bulla documented the political events in Russia after the October Revolution between 1917 and 1920 as a photographer .

estate

Parts of the photographic estate of Bulla and his son Viktor Karlowitsch Bulla are stored in the photo archive of the Moscow House of Photography .

literature

  • Peter Herzog: Photographs of the Russian Revolution from the Ruth and Peter Herzog Collection. "October" - The new icons. In: Museum Jean Tinguely Basel (ed.): 0.10 - Iwan Puni and photographs of the Russian Revolution . Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Basel from April 12 to September 28, 2003. Bern: Benteli, 2003, pp. 75–100. ISBN 3-7165-1308-3
  • Heiko Haumann , Andreas Guski: Revolution and Photography. Two photo albums from the People's Commissariat for Enlightenment and the Utopia of the Future Society. In: Museum Jean Tinguely Basel (ed.): 0.10 - Iwan Puni and photographs of the Russian Revolution . Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Basel from April 12 to September 28, 2003. Bern: Benteli, 2003, pp. 101–130. ISBN 3-7165-1308-3

Web links

Commons : Karl Bulla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] . In: Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow . Retrieved September 25, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Bulla, Carl Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Булла, Карл Карлович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photographer, founder of Russian photo reports
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Leobschütz , District of Leobschütz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1929
Place of death Saaremaa