Background
Ruth Bernhard was born in 1905 in Berlin, Germany.
Ruth Bernhard was born in 1905 in Berlin, Germany.
She studied at the Academy of Art in Berlin.
Bernhard has taught numerous seminars and workshops. From 1968 to 1976 she was an instructor in creative photography at the University of California Extension in San Francisco. A member of Friends of Photography.
The artist described her photographic production in these terms: "My work is primarily black- and-white view camera work, specializing in nudes, natural forms and still lifes. My philosophy: The celebration of the commonplace."
PUBLICATIONS Monograph: Collecting Light, 1979 (Friends of Photography: Carmel, Calif.). Books: It’s Only A Movie, 1972; Being Without Clothes, 1970; Light7, 1968; The History of the Nude in Photography, 1965; The Big Heart, w/ M. Van, 1957; Poet's Camera, 1946. Anthologies: The Photograph Collector’s Guide, Lee D. Wit- kin & Barbara London, 1979; Recollections: Ten Women of Photography, Margaretta Mitchell, ed., 1979; Photography in the 20th Century, 1967. Catalogs: Contemporary Trends, 1976 (Columbia Coll., Chicago Photog. Gall.); Women of Photography, 1975 (San Francisco Mus. of Modern Art); Through One’s Eyes, 1973 (Muckenthaler Cultural Ctr.: Fullerton, Calif.); Photography USA, 1968 (De Cordova Mus.: Lincoln, Mass.); Photography in the Fine Arts, 1967 (Metro. Mus. of Art: NYC); An Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, 1965 (Univ. of Illinois: Urbana); The Photograph as Poetry, 1960 (Pasadena Art Mus.: Calif.); Creative Photography, 1956 (Univ. of Kentucky: Lexington). Periodicals: Exposure: SPE, 1977; Photography, Mar 1972; Creative Camera, Oct, Apr 1971; Popular Photography Annual, 1962; Aperture, 1961, vol. 3, 1959,4:1,' 1956,2:3, 1953; U.S. Camera, 1952.
