Background
J. Bradley Burns was born in 1951 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
J. Bradley Burns was born in 1951 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.
Bums graduated in 1971 with a major in biology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He began his photography studies by attending the Ansel Adams Yosemite Workshops in 1973.
Since 1976 Bums has been coordinator of exhibitions at the Hunter Museum of Art in Chattanooga. He worked at the Ansel Adams Gallery and workshop as coordinator assistant in 1974. He also did freelance commercial photography from 1971 to 1973.
Working primarily in black-and-white, using all formats, he characterized his work as "most images in the 'straight' style dealing with aspects of the landscape whether man-altered or natural, and the human figure. My work shows the influences of the 'West Coast/F-64' group."
Burns was a member of the American Association of Museums, the Tennessee Association of Museums, Friends of Photography and the Sierra Club.