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Ruth Bernhard Biography

Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer.

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Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition. . . After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.

Black And White, Eye, Know, Love, Real, Years

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Change, Life, Used

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

Black, Eye, Human, Photography, Real, Sees

I never look for a photograph. The photograph finds me and says, I'm here! and I say, Yes, I see you. I hear you.

Find Me, Looks, Photograph, Say, See

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.

Flying, Likes, Pants, Seats

Photography is art when it's used by an artist.

Art, Photographer, Photography, Used

My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

Giving, Isolate, Light, Photography, Quest

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

Cameras, Photography, Picture, Shoot, Weapon, Weapons

A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.

Cultivate, People, Person, Photographer, Photography, Trying

The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Body, Children, Mother, Suggesting

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

Awesome, Image, Lonely, Overlap, Responsibility, Spirit

Everything is one and I am one with it.

Everything, Photographer, Photography

I always said 'yes' to everything.

Everything, Photographer, Photography, Said, Yes

I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.

Expect, Instinctively, Intellect, Looking, Photograph, Photography

Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

Photography, Inspiration, Curves, Life, Planet

Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

Body, Change, Perhaps, Photography, Spirit, Trying

You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Follow, Instinct, Photographer, Photography, Time

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Bound, Clouds, Nature, Together

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.

Photography, Insightful, Helping, Photographs, Tells, Help

Light is my inspiration. My photographic images search for dimensions that words cannot touch- the result of intense responses to personal experiences. I do not wish to "record," but rather to touch upon the illusive meanings which I perceive and try to comprehend in this limitless universe.

Comprehend, Inspiration, Light, Photography, Record

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