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Ruth Bernhard, Michael Kenna, and Stieglitz and His Circle
Of Our Time: Celebrating Ruth Bernhard's Photography
April 3 - 29, 2001
Ruth Bernhard is a vital presence in the arts and
photography communities of San Francisco. Her best-known work, highlighted in 50
images in this exhibition, ranges from nudes to still lifes. For Bernhard, "Light
is my inspiration, my paint and brush." This is evident in her luminous, timeless
figures as well as her carefully arranged still lifes. Says Bernhard of her work,
"...the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response,
most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I
cannot deny." This exhibition, in honor of Ruth Bernhard's 95 birthday, celebrates
her lifelong devotion to photography and honors the release of her new biography,
published by Chronicle Books, entitled Ruth Bernhard: Between Art & Life.
Michael Kenna: Night Work
April 3 - 29, 2001
This exhibition of night photographs by San Francisco-based
photographer Michael Kenna features images that play with the psychology of the night,
with the fears and mysteries of darkness, with subjects that range from the path in
a seventeenth-century French garden to the cooling towers of a modern power plant.
During the past decade, Kenna has developed an extensive body of night photographs
of a variety of subjects, and it is from these images that the photographs in the
exhibition have been drawn. The exhibition is in celebration of the re-print of
the best-selling Untitled Series: Night Walk, published by The Friends of Photography
in 1987. The new publication, Night Work, published in association with Nazraeli
Press includes both stunning new images and classic favorites.
Stieglitz and his Circle: The Art of the Photograveur
April 3 - 29, 2001
Ansel Adams in the Harriet Kellogg Maxwell Gallery
ongoing
In an ongoing series of exhibitions highlighting Ansel Adams,
The Friends of Photography devotes a gallery space to honor the work of one of the best known
photographers in our century. The rotating photographs on display provide an opportunity to
view the breadth of the many different aspects of Adams' work.
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