Ruth Bernhard, Sand Dune, 1967
Price
$200
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Category
- Fine Art › Photography › Photogravure
- Surface
- Paper
- Date Of Negative
- 1947
- Type Of Print
- Authentic Sheet Fed Photogravure/Heliogravure.
- Date Of Print
- 1986
- Paper
- Medium weight, matte finish.
- Print Origin
- USA
- Publisher
- Chronicle
- Approximate Image Size
- 8 x 6 inches
- Approximate Mount Board Size
- 14 x 16 inches
- Condition
- Excellent
- Verso
- Professionally dry mounted with archival materials on 4ply museum black mat board.
About this work
Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) was the daughter of Lucien Bernhard, a graphic designer known as "the father of the German poster." After studying for two years at the Berlin Academy of Art, she came to New York in 1927 and worked briefly in Ralph Steiner's studio; she bought her first camera the next year. Her first serious photograph, Lifesavers, interested Vogue's art director, Dr. M.F. Agha, and he arranged for its publication in Advertising Art in 1931; many photography assignments in advertising and industrial design photography followed. In 1934, she photographed the Museum of Modern Art's Machine Art exhibition and began the photographs of nudes for which she is best known.
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Ruth Bernhard, Double Vision, 1973
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