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Ruth Bernhard

Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) was born in Berlin but moved to New York in 1927, finally settling in San Francisco where she lived and worked for five decades. She was widely admired for her collection of work on the female nude, embodying classical, sculptural ideals of beauty. Ansel Adams called her "the greatest photographer of the nude" and she was also associated with Edward Weston and other renowned photographers.

Bernhard, Ruth.
Edited by James Alinder.
Collecting Light: The Photographs of Ruth Bernhard.
Carmel, CA: Friends of Photography, 1979.

Bernhard, Ruth.
Essay by Margaretta K. Mitchell.
The Eternal Body: A Collection of Fifty Nudes.
Carmel, CA: Photography West Graphics, 1986.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1994.

Bernhard, Ruth.
Gift of the Commonplace.
Carmel Valley, CA: Woodrose Publications / Center for Photographic Art, 1996.

Mitchell, Margaretta.
Ruth Bernhard: Between Art and Life.
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2000.