Ruth Bernhard collection
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Not requestable
Scope and Contents
The Ruth Bernhard miscellaneous acquisitions collection consists of publications dated from 1959 to 1996, with the majority falling in the years 1980-1996. There is one series: Publications. These publications include magazines featuring articles about and including Ruth Bernhard and her work, catalogs of workshops including classes taught by Bernhard, catalogs for auctions featuring Bernhard’s photographs, and exhibition catalogs featuring Bernhard and her work.
Dates
- 1959-1996
Creator
- Bernhard, Ruth, 1905-2006 (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English, French
Conditions Governing Access
To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.
The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement.
Biographical Note
Ruth Bernhard was born in 1905 in Berlin, Germany and is known for her still life and nude photography. She photographed both artistically and commercially and taught photography workshops and master classes beginning in 1967. Her father was Lucien Bernhard, a graphic designer and typographer, whom she followed to New York in 1927. She was greatly influenced by the art photography of Edward Weston and in 1953 she moved to San Francisco, California. She became known as an influential West Coast photographer and joined photographers Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Dorothea Lange, and Imogen Cunningham, among others, as a member of the groups f/64 and the San Francisco Photographers’ Roundtable. In 1971 she received the Dorothea Lange Award from the Oakland Art Museum. She died at home in San Francisco in 2006. In addition to the collection at the CCP, Bernhard’s life and career are housed in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections and Princeton University.
Extent
1 Linear Foot
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Abstract
Publications, including newspapers, magazines, exhibition catalogs, workshop and class catalogs, and auction advertisements, published between 1959 and 1996. The materials feature articles written about or including Ruth Bernhard and her photography, descriptions of workshops and classes taught by Bernhard, and exhibitions and auctions featuring her work. There are 24 total publications.
Arrangement
The Collection is arranged into the following series:
- Series 1: Publications, n.d., 1959-1996, 1 box
Custodial History
Gift of Ruth Bernhard in 1994.
Processing Information
Processed by Tai Huesgen in 2019.
Source
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Film (Organization)
- Title
- Ruth Bernhard collection 1959-1996
- Author
- Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
- Date
- © 2020
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English
Repository Details
Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository
