I really enjoyed getting to read more about Ruth Bernhard's life as a photographer in San Francisco, of course she was in many other locations as well, but I really latch on to the San Francisco part with living in the Bay Area. She was an amazing photographer and, from people's reviews, she was a great teacher. Sometimes you see all the work a photographer has created and you forever about all the things that they had to go through in their lives, that they also have tough times just like you and I do.
Ruth grew up in a family that didn't seem to care to much about her one way or the other. She had a sister who wasn't told that Ruth was her sister until she was like 18 or something like that. Later in life she suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning and that resulted in her not being able to print her work anymore and had a harder time focusing to take photographs. Then there were the great opportunities that she had like meeting Edward Weston and Ansel Adams and countless other ground breaking photographers.
There are so many great things about this book that I don't even have the words to tell you everything about it. Obviously the best way to know everything about the book is to read it yourself! I very much enjoyed this book and I actually think this is the second time I have read it, last time would have been in grad school so I would have been busy then too. I found this book to be quite inspirational and really wish that I could have met her and taken some of her classes.
I love her work and have included one of my favorite images, which of course is the cover of The Eternal Body, and her most popular image.
Photo: Ruth Bernhard, “Perspective II, 1967″
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