Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhard
Ruth Bernhardwas a German-born American photographer...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth14 October 1905
CountryGermany
willing ifs visible
If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
photography soul too-much
There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.
photography people trying
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.
photography not-interested ifs
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning
photography falling-in-love love-you
Fall in love. Every day. With everything. With life. If you can fall in love, you can be a photographer. I think that is absolutely essential.
photography ideas cry
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
nature clouds together
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.
Everything I do is a metaphor of the universal order.
photography light giving
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.
real eye black-and-white
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.
photography helping photograph
I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help.