A new book chronicles Ruth Bernhard’s remarkable 40-year career ❤️
as she emigrated from Germany to the West Coast of the US between the wars.
As a German-Jew with a fraught family history, Bernhard’s oeuvre is arguably an expression of her psychological interior. When her mother abandoned the family in 1907, Bernhard’s busy father – unable to adjust to single parenthood – sent her away, to live with another family. “I was an unwanted child. All the things that I do and have done are the result of not having any parents. All my work is somehow related to that deprivation,” she said.
In 1935 Bernhard became a US citizen, and the following year she moved to Los Angeles where she opened a commercial photography studio. Not long before, in a fortunate twist of fate she met the photographerwhile walking on a beach in Santa Monica. Although she still spoke little English, the two formed a close relationship, one that would last until his death in 1958. Upon being introduced to Weston’s work, Bernhard admitted, “It was overwhelming. It was lightning in darkness.
By capturing the nude with gravitas rather than eroticism, Bernhard’s portraits – principally concerned with compositional elegance – take on a sculptural quality.
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