Ruth Bernhard Biography
Ruth Bernhard was born in Berlin in 1905. In 1927, after two
years at the Berlin Academy of Art, Ruth moved to New York where she began to
seriously pursue a career in photography. Eight years later she met Edward
Weston in California and was deeply moved by his work. He revealed to her the
profound creative potential of photography and its artistic implications.
Desiring to work with him, she moved to the West Coast shortly thereafter.
In 1953, she moved to San Francisco and became a colleague of Ansel Adams,
Imogen Cunningham, Minor White and Wynn Bullock. She has lectured and conducted
master classes throughout the United States through her 95th birthday.
Ruth Bernhard’s work can be found in most major museum collections throughout
the world, including the George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art in New
York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
Her photographs have been shown internationally in major exhibitions for over
fifty years and widely published. In 1986, Photography West published an
acclaimed monograph of her nudes entitled The Eternal Body which received
Photography Book of the Year and brought Bernhard widespread acclaim as a
photographer of the nude.
"My aim is to transform the complexities of the figure into harmonies of
simplified forms revealing the innate reality, the life force, the spirit, the
inherent symbolism and the underlying remarkable structure – to isolate and
give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity."
years at the Berlin Academy of Art, Ruth moved to New York where she began to
seriously pursue a career in photography. Eight years later she met Edward
Weston in California and was deeply moved by his work. He revealed to her the
profound creative potential of photography and its artistic implications.
Desiring to work with him, she moved to the West Coast shortly thereafter.
In 1953, she moved to San Francisco and became a colleague of Ansel Adams,
Imogen Cunningham, Minor White and Wynn Bullock. She has lectured and conducted
master classes throughout the United States through her 95th birthday.
Ruth Bernhard’s work can be found in most major museum collections throughout
the world, including the George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art in New
York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
Her photographs have been shown internationally in major exhibitions for over
fifty years and widely published. In 1986, Photography West published an
acclaimed monograph of her nudes entitled The Eternal Body which received
Photography Book of the Year and brought Bernhard widespread acclaim as a
photographer of the nude.
"My aim is to transform the complexities of the figure into harmonies of
simplified forms revealing the innate reality, the life force, the spirit, the
inherent symbolism and the underlying remarkable structure – to isolate and
give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity."
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