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."