Viktor Bulla
Victor Karlovich Bulla | |
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Born | Виктор Карлович Булла 1 August 1883 |
Died | 1 October 1938 | (aged 55)
Citizenship | Russia, Soviet Union |
Occupation | photographer |
Years active | 1899–1938 |
Parent | Karl Bulla |
Viktor Karlovich Bulla (Russian: Виктор Карлович Булла; 1 August 1883 – 30 October 1938) was a Russian and Soviet photojournalist, photographer and cinema pioneer.
Biography
Early life
Viktor Bulla was a son of the renowned photographer
Viktor Bulla's work was first recognized when he was 19 years old, working as a photojournalist for the Siberian Reserve Brigade during the
20th century and revolution
After the war, he returned to his job as a photojournalist in the family photo agency, and soon developed an interest in
After the outbreak of World War I, Viktor returned to work in the family photography agency, shooting the revolutionary events of 1917–1918 in Russia and taking part in the creation of a documentary film on the February Revolution of 1917, titled Chronicle of the Revolution in Petrograd. His dynamic and still shots served as the foundation for directors Sergei Eisenstein and M. Chiaureli in the creation of films about the revolution of 1917.
Viktor photographed the events of the October 1917
In 1928 Viktor and his brother Alexander Bulla submitted 30 photographs to the exhibition Soviet photography over 10 years. The jury awarded them an honorary diploma.[citation needed]
In 1935, the Bulla family's photographic collection, consisting of approximately 132,683 negatives, was handed over to the local archives (Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the Leningrad Region).
Arrest and exile
In 1936, he was dismissed from the position of the agency's head and forbidden to do artistic work. The lab was supposed to do just routine commercial work for the residents of the city.
On 19 July 1938, Bulla was arrested, allegedly following a
Relatives
Viktor's son, Yuri (born in 1919) also became a photographer and worked in Leningrad, pioneering photojournalism for the newspaper Lenin sparks. He died in 1941 at the Leningrad front.
Bulla's grandson and daughter, Valentina and Andrey Leonovich Kaminski, still live in St. Petersburg.
Award
- Silver Medal for Courage on the St. George Ribbon for his service in the Russian-Japanese war.
Book
- Anthology of Soviet photography, 1917–1940. Moscow: Planet Publisher, 1986.
Further reading
- Russian photography. Середина XIX- начало XX вв., М., 1996; The middle of the 19th and early 20th centuries., MA, 1996;
- Никитин В. А., Рассказы о фотографах и фотографиях, Л.,1991. Nikitin VA, stories and photographs of photographers, L., 1991.
References
- ^ "Карл Булла – Жизнь и творчество | Классики фотоискусства | Клуб Foto.ru" (in Russian). Club.foto.ru. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "Булла Карл Карлович (1853–1929гг.) и сыновья Александр и Виктор — ЦАСК". Tsar-auto-club.spb.ru. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ "ИСТОРИЯ ПЕТЕРБУРГА (HISTORY OF ST. PETERSBURG)" (PDF) (in Russian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 January 2012.
- ^ "Портал "Глаза и уши Петербурга" - Карл Булла – отец русского фоторепортажа.Историческая информация". Archived from the original on 7 February 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
- ^ "Виктор Булла. "Оборона пионеров", Ленинград (1937)". Lenpravda.ru. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- ^ Kovalova, Anna; Nikitin, Vladimir. "ВИКТОР КАРЛОВИЧ БУЛЛА— КИНООПЕРАТОР" (PDF). Kinozapiski. Retrieved 1 August 2018.