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later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close. Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951. Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies. They visited him in Czechoslovakia "almost yearly." In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York.
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Bullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York. Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo. They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed. Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her. They started photographing together a year
22:(October 17, 1923, Prague, Czechoslovakia – October 5, 2000, New York) was a Czech-American photographer. Bullaty is known for her "lyrical composition" and strong use of color during her fifty-year collaboration with her husband, Angelo Lomeo. Bullaty and Lomeo's photographs appeared in 145:. They began their career photographing artwork for museums and galleries. In addition, much of their work was originally in black and white, but they switched to color in 1970. Lomeo and Bullaty had their first photographic assignment in 1948, located in the 64:
to a Jewish banking family. Her family gave her a camera when she turned fourteen. Since Bullaty had been forced to leave school at the time, the camera was a "consolation gift." When Bullaty was eighteen, she was deported by the
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and "pretended to be merely a tourist." Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on assignments all over the world. One series that Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on included windows from around the world and was featured in
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for Bullaty. Bullaty quit working for Sudek, but they remained friends, exchanging letters over the years. Many of his letters to her were written on the backs of his photographs.
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magazine featured their photos of Yugoslavian peasant-painters and their art in 1964. The couple were the first to receive the Olivia Ladd Gilliam Award from the
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work. Bullaty said, "I have often felt that the reason I celebrate life and beauty is precisely because I have seen so much pain and ugliness."
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As photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras, but eventually changed to working on location with
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A "distant relative" of Bullaty found her name on a Holocaust survivor's list and invited her to stay in
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Despite working together, Bullaty had her own personal vision: she was intrigued by "
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Bullaty, "her head shaved," saw and answered an advertisement to be the helper to
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on October 5, 2000. In 2001, Bullaty and Lomeo had 72 photographs featured in
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shadows she remembers from her childhood." She also captured the effects of
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magazines and journal. They have both exhibited at the
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As his assistant, she mixed chemicals for the 250:"Sonja Bullaty, 76, a Photographer of Lyricism" 8: 874:Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States 689:"The Need for Beauty: Lavender in Provence" 622: 497: 854:Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors 218: 849:Auschwitz concentration camp survivors 424: 198:Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center 715:"Dislocated Abbeville Plans WTC Book" 566: 564: 562: 560: 533: 531: 244: 242: 7: 599:"Poetic Images: Sudek Retrospective" 443:Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City 435: 433: 391: 389: 387: 385: 332: 330: 328: 302: 300: 273: 271: 240: 238: 236: 234: 232: 230: 228: 226: 224: 222: 879:20th-century American women artists 834:Photographers from New York (state) 473:International Center of Photography 127:in 1947, paying the boat fair from 46:International Center of Photography 803:Official site of Bullaty and Lomeo 743:Fondiller, Harvey V. (June 1983). 538:Desfor, Irving (4 February 1979). 337:Fondiller, Harvey V. 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