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{{Short description|British photographer and filmmaker (born 1938)}}
{{About|the photographer and filmmaker|the cricketer|John Bulmer (cricketer)|the minister|John Bulmer (Independent minister)}}
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In addition to Cartier-Bresson, Bulmer admired the work in black and white of [[Bill Brandt]], [[Larry Burrows]], [[William Klein (photographer)|William Klein]], [[Mark Kauffman]], and particularly [[W. Eugene Smith|Eugene Smith]];<ref name="scott" /> but he was asked to work in colour for the ''[[The Sunday Times Magazine|Sunday Times Colour Section]]'' from its launch in 1962.<ref>Andy Manning, "[http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/the-arts/art/changing-view-from-up-north-1-5355144 Changing view from up north]", ''Yorkshire Post,'' 28 January 2013. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref> At the time, most photojournalists looked down on colour photography as commercial;<ref name="scott" /> and colour film was difficult to work with as it was [[Film speed|slower]] than black and white and had less [[exposure latitude]].<ref name="hamilton" />
In 1965, Bulmer first photographed the north of England in colour, for the ''Sunday Times magazine.''<ref group="n">Tearsheets for this story, "The North", can be seen [http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/sunday-times/north/index.html here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818195621/http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/sunday-times/north/index.html |date=18 August 2011 }} within Bulmer's website. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref> Colour photography was "a medium in which Bulmer was the British pioneer", far ahead of such photographers as [[William Eggleston]] and [[Martin Parr]]. Using colour for the north of England was Bulmer's idea, as was the choice of winter or wet weather, when colour film was yet harder to use.<ref name="hamilton" /><ref group="n">Moreover, the only film whose use was practicable was [[Ektachrome|Ektachrome-X]], whose colour balance shifted with time and was unsuitable when the film was either old or very new. Hamilton, "Northern exposures".</ref>
Grant Scott has described the results:
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<blockquote>Saturated but muted colours combined with [Bulmer's] compositional talent to create images which are time capsules as contemporary today as they were then.<ref name="scott" /></blockquote>
The priorities of the ''Sunday Times Magazine'' changed in the 1970s; its then-new editor [[Hunter Davies]] explained them to Bulmer as "crime, middle-class living and fashion". These were of little interest to Bulmer, who left in 1973 after a final story about North Korea.<ref name="scott" /><ref name="hamilton" /><ref name="grimley">Terry Grimley, "[http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-art/2009/06/09/john-bulmer-photographic-exhibition-opens-in-hereford-65233-23825001/ John Bulmer photographic exhibition opens in Hereford] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829182234/http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham-guide/birmingham-culture/birmingham-art/2009/06/09/john-bulmer-photographic-exhibition-opens-in-hereford-65233-23825001/ |date=29 August 2012 }}", ''Birmingham Post,'' 9 June 2009. Accessed 19 February 2013.</ref> However, he continued photography for other publications, making his last story of the north of England in 1976, for the British edition of ''[[GEO (magazine)|Geo]].''<ref name="hamilton" />
Bulmer later photographed celebrities.<ref name="wainwright" />
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==Films and videos photographed, directed, or produced==
''Dir'', directed; ''pho'', photographed; ''pro'', produced.<ref group="n">More details, as well as some short excerpts, are available in [http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/film-biography/ this page about films] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120045048/http://www.johnbulmer.co.uk/film-biography/ |date=20 January 2013 }} on Bulmer's website. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*''The Artist's Horse''. 20 minutes, for ''[[The South Bank Show]]'', 1978. ''Dir, pho, pro''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120713120506/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6db571a0 The Artist's Horse], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
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*''Now Is the Hour''. 1970. ''Dir''<ref>[https://archive.today/20130423190912/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b74e6f2d4 Now Is the Hour], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*''The Painter and the Fighter''. For ''[[Survival (TV series)|Survival]]'' (Anglia), 1996. ''Dir, pho''<ref>[https://archive.today/20130423185001/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/544790 The Painter and the Fighter], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*''Queen of the Elephants''. 90 minutes, for the Discovery Channel, 1994. ''Pho''<ref>[http://msc.opac.marmot.org/Record/.b15144318 Catalogue entry for ''Queen of the Elephants''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214745/http://msc.opac.marmot.org/Record/.b15144318 |date=3 March 2016 }}, Colorado Mesa University library. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*''The Search for Shangri-La''. 50 minutes, for the BBC and PBS. ''Dir, pho''<ref name="north3rdfloor" />
*''Stick Fights and Lip Plates''. 50 minutes, for the Discovery Channel. ''Dir, pho''<ref name="leominster">"[http://www.ludlowadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/5025835.print/ The Playhouse Cinema at Leominster Community Centre presents a selection of films]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}", ''The Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser,'' 25 February 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
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*''Vincent the Dutchman''. 50/52/60 minutes,<ref group="n">The sources cited here disagree on the exact length.</ref> for ''[[Omnibus (UK TV series)|Omnibus]]'', 1972.<ref name="leominster" /><ref>John Albert Walker, ''Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain'' (London: J. Libbey, 1993; {{ISBN|0861964357}}), p. 58. [https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA58 Here] at Google Books; accessed 18 February 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr/info_film.php?id=505 Data for ''Vincent the Dutchman''], Festival Cinéma Nordique.<!-- Same thing at http://www.festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr/info_enfilm.php?id=505 --> Accessed 18 February 2013.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150922025744/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b7db920d7 Vincent the Dutchman], British Film Institute. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref> (Winner of a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA award]] for "Television: Specialised Programme" in 1973.<ref>[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Vincent+the+Dutchman&=Search Database search result], BAFTA website. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>)
*''The Witchdoctor's New Bride''. 50 minutes, for the Discovery Channel, 2005. ''Dir, pho''<ref>[https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin%3FA3%3Dind05%26L%3DANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS%26E%3Dbase64%26P%3D9654088%26B%3D------_%253D_NextPart_001_01C5669C.609213B0%26T%3Dapplication%252Fmsword%3B%2520name%3D%2522FestivalflyerB%2BW.doc Festival flyer] (DOC file). <!-- This does seem to be the shortest form of this horrendous URL --> JISCMail. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*''Women of the Yellow Earth''. 50 minutes, 1994. ''Dir, pho''<ref>[http://archive.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/2010/events_women.shtml Women of the Yellow Earth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032712/http://archive.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/2010/events_women.shtml |date=4 March 2016 }}, Borderlines Film Festival, 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
==Exhibitions==
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*"Hard Sixties: L'Angleterre post-industrielle / Post-Industrial Britain". Galerie David Guirand (Paris), October–December 2008.<ref>"[http://re-photo.co.uk/?p=501 Hard Sixties]", >Re:Photo, 19 December 2008. Accessed 18 February 2013.</ref><ref>"[http://www.livresphotos.com/expositions-photos/john-bulmer,1145.html John Bulmer]", Livres photos, 21 November 2008.{{in lang|fr}}. Accessed 18 February 2013.</ref>
*"John Bulmer Retrospective". [[Hereford Museum and Art Gallery]], May–June 2009.<ref name="pictures" /><ref name="grimley" /><ref>Bridget Coaker, "[http://persiflage.org.uk/2009/05/19/john-bulmer-retrospective/ John Bulmer retrospective], persiflage.org.uk, 19 May 2009. Accessed 19 February 2013. (Bridget Coaker was the curator of the exhibition.)</ref> Then touring: "John Bulmer, a Retrospective: Photographs from 1959–1979", Lucy Bell Gallery ([[St Leonards-on-Sea]], East Sussex), June–July 2010.<ref>[http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/909/49/ Exhibition notice for "John Bulmer, A Retrospective"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130415161719/http://www.pro-imaging.org/content/view/909/49/ |date=15 April 2013 }}, pro-imaging.org. Accessed 19 February 2013.</ref>
*"Northern Soul". [[National Coal Mining Museum for England]] ([[Overton, Wakefield|Overton]], West Yorkshire), January–April 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncm.org.uk/news.asp?id=216 |title="Northern Soul: John Bulmer's images of life and Times in the 1960s" |accessdate=2013-02-19 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100206175812/http://www.ncm.org.uk/news.asp?id=216 |archivedate= 6 February 2010 }}, National Coal Mining Museum for England, 6 January 2010. Accessed by the Wayback Machine on 6 February 2010. Wayback copy accessed 18 February 2013.</ref> Touring: West Gallery, [[Woodhorn (Museum)|Woodhorn Museum]] ([[Ashington]], Northumberland), December 2010 – March 2011.<ref>"{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045517/http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/northern-soul-1/ Exhibition with northern soul worth the wait]}}", Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives, 8 December 2010. Accessed 18 February 2013.</ref> [[Leeds College of Art]], Leeds, April–May 2012.<ref>"[http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=862 John Bulmer] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140317174316/http://www.leeds-artexhibitions.co.uk/?p=862 |date=17 March 2014 }}", Leeds College of Art. Accessed 17 March 2014.</ref> [[Shildon Locomotion Museum|Locomotion]] (National Railway Museum, [[Shildon]], County Durham), September–November 2012.<ref>"[http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2012/August/northernsoul.aspx Northern Soul: An exhibition at Locomotion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808213655/http://www.nrm.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/PressReleases/2012/August/northernsoul.aspx |date=8 August 2014 }}", National Railway Museum, 19 August 2012. Accessed 18 February 2013.</ref> Museum of Cannock Chase ([[Hednesford]], Staffordshire), January–March 2013.<ref>[http://www.wlct.org/Default.aspx.LocID-0csnew070.RefLocID-0cs00d00a001.Lang-EN.htm "Northern Soul" exhibition notice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810203942/http://www.wlct.org/Default.aspx.LocID-0csnew070.RefLocID-0cs00d00a001.Lang-EN.htm |date=10 August 2014 }}, WLTC, 14 January 2013. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*"John Bulmer: A Retrospective, Photographs from 1959–79". Hotshoe Gallery (London), April–May 2010.<ref>Daniel C. Blight, "[http://www.danielcampbellblight.com/john-bulmer-a-retrospective-1959%E2%80%9379/ John Bulmer: Photographs 1959–79] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208113449/http://www.danielcampbellblight.com/john-bulmer-a-retrospective-1959%E2%80%9379/ |date=8 February 2013 }}", danielcampbellblight.com, 18 April 2010. Accessed 10 February 2013. (Blight was a codirector of the exhibition.)</ref>
*"The North". [[Third Floor Gallery]] (Cardiff), May–June 2011.<ref name="north3rdfloor">"[http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/photography%20%26%20film/art355710 The North: John Bulmer's shots capture a moment in time at Third Floor Gallery Cardiff]", Culture24, 6 May 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
*"Out of England: Images from Overseas". Art360 Gallery ([[Hereford]]), October–November 2011.<ref>"[http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/9343501.print/ Hereford Photography Festival presents exhibition by John Bulmer]", ''Surrey Comet'', 3 November 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.photofest.org/2011_new/pages/Festival_Exhibitions.html Programme] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822072704/http://www.photofest.org/2011_new/pages/Festival_Exhibitions.html |date=22 August 2013 }}, Hereford Photography Festival 2011. Accessed 10 February 2013.</ref>
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===Zines devoted to Bulmer's photographs===
*''Hartlepool 1960s.'' Southport: [[Café Royal Books|Café Royal]], 2017. Edition of 200 copies. Second edition, 2020.<ref group="n">Café Royal Books' [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/john-bulmer-manchester-hartlepool-1960s70s-series-2-books page about ''Hartlepool 1960s'' and ''Manchester 1970s''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028154542/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/john-bulmer-manchester-hartlepool-1960s70s-series-2-books |date=28 October 2020 }}.</ref>
*''Manchester 1970s.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edition of 200 copies. Second edition, 2020.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Mark|last1=Pinder|accessdate=2020-08-09|title=Newcastle West End: Elswick to Newburn|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/07/newcastle-west-end-elswick-to-newburn-in-pictures|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 August 2020|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
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