Tag: Ruth Bernhard

  • Ruth Bernhard — photographer of nudes and still lifes

    Ruth Bernhard — photographer of nudes and still lifes

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    SFGate: “To be a photographer was a gift of the gods,” she said in a Chronicle profile by Kenneth Baker, written in 2001. “I can’t imagine anything that would have been better.” Biographer Margaretta Mitchell’s book, “Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body,” contains the artist’s own assessment of her adopted home. “To me … San Francisco…