From "Windows" by Angelo Lomeo: Chromogenic 8 x 10 Print Circa 1980s

Artist: Angelo Lomeo
Title: From "Windows" 

Description: Chromogenic print

Size: 8 x 10 inches

Provenance: Staszyn Gallery, New York, NY> Marjorie Neikrug Gallery, New York City, NY

"Bullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York.[13] Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo.[6] They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed.[1] Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her.[13] They started photographing together a year later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close.[13] Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951.[1] Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies.[12] They visited him in Czechoslovakia "almost yearly."[14] In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York.[8]

As photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras, but eventually changed to working on location with 35-mm SLR cameras.[10] They began their career photographing artwork for museums and galleries.[1] In addition, much of their work was originally in black and white, but they switched to color in 1970.[1] Lomeo and Bullaty had their first photographic assignment in 1948, located in the American South.[4] While photographing, Bullaty was grabbed by a Ku Klux Klansman and "pretended to be merely a tourist."[4] Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on assignments all over the world.[10] One series that Bullaty and Lomeo worked together on included windows from around the world and was featured in Popular Photography magazine.[15] LIFE magazine featured their photos of Yugoslavian peasant-painters and their art in 1964.[16] The couple were the first to receive the Olivia Ladd Gilliam Award from the Orion Society.[3]

Despite working together, Bullaty had her own personal vision: she was intrigued by "Kafkaesque shadows she remembers from her childhood."[13] She also captured the effects of climate and seasons in her landscape work.[17] 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."[18]

Bullaty died from cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on October 5, 2000.[6] In 2001, Bullaty and Lomeo had 72 photographs featured in The World Trade Center Remembered.[19]"