Peter Fetterman Gallery presents a selection of nudes by Ruth Bernhard. Peter Fetterman writes:
“I enjoyed a long and wonderful collaboration with Ruth Bernhard. It was our first exhibition, in my first gallery, so many years ago. An artist with a fiery temperament and so inspiring. Mentored and inspired by Edward Weston in the 1930s, she had a long and illustrious career. Best known for her exquisite nudes (as Ansel Adams called her, ‘the greatest photographer of the nude’). Her father, the distinguished graphic designer Lucian Bernhard, introduced Ruth to his friend and fellow émigré, the celebrated architect Frederick Kiesler, who had just designed this cinema in New York and asked her to photograph it for him. It seems like only yesterday that I was at her 100th birthday and was honored to speak at her memorial service.
Here is Ruth’s recipe for a long and happy life.
- Never get used to anything
- Hold on to the child within you
- Keep your curiosity alive
- Trust your intuition
- Enjoy the simple things
- Say ‘yes’ to life with passion
- Fall madly in love with the world
- Don’t forget: today is the day
~ Ruth Bernhard, October 14, 1995
Thank you, Ruth, for that advice. You’re right!”
Peter Fetterman
Peter Fetterman Gallery
2525 Michigan Ave, #A1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
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