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

Ruth Bernhard

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Ruth Bernhard
Age: 101 †
Born: 1905
Born: October 14
Died: 2006
Died: December 18
Photographer
Berlin
Germany
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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.
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There is nothing unimportant in the universe.
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Photography is art when it's used by an artist.
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Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.
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Everything is one and I am one with it.
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If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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