I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

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• Ruth Bernhard:

  The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new fo

• Ruth Bernhard:

  My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify, and to give emphasis t

• Ruth Bernhard:

  To indicate the ideal proportion and reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

• Ruth Bernhard:

  If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I allowed life to give me presents. And everything just sort of happened the way it was supposed to

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

• Ruth Bernhard:

  To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oc

• Ruth Bernhard:

  To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I look at ordinary objects, and I see things that other people don't see. That's why I'm a photogra

• Ruth Bernhard:

  I've always photographed beauty, but I've never been beautiful myself.