Ruth Bernhard: The Eternal Body : A Collection of Fifty Nudes

Margaretta Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0811808262 ISBN 13: 9780811808262

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1994

Synopsis

For over half a century, acclaimed photographer Ruth Bernhard has worked to "simplify, isolate, and give emphasis to form with greatest clarity" in her radiant photographs of the female nude. Now, with Chronicle Books' timely reissue of her best-selling volume, The Eternal Body, Bernhard's most evocative images are once again available in a superb collection, complete with an insightfill text, that pays tribute to a living legend. Hauntingly sensual yet classically reserved, the book's ethereal duotone photographs appear to be illuminated from within so that even the simplest lines of the human form -- a draped torso, a curved neck, an angled limb -- take on a complexity not often seen in work of this kind. A master artist whose technical prowess places her among the ranks of the greatest photographers of our time, Ruth Bernhard has created a masterpiece of expression and sensitivity in The Eternal Body.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Bernhard (1905–2006) was one of the most significant photographers of the twentieth century.

Margaretta Mitchell is a photographer who exhibits internationally.

Karen Sinsheimer is curator of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Review:

Outstanding...the greatest photographer of the nude. Ansel Adams

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811808262
• ISBN 13: 9780811808262
• Binding: Unknown Binding
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 140