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Lifesavers
Photograph

1930
7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (18.42 x 23.5 cm)

Ruth Bernhard (Berlin, Germany, 1905 - 2006, San Francisco, California)

Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Gelatin silver print on paper
Credit Line: Gift of David Devine, San Francisco, California
Accession Number: 1982.45

Exhibition


The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention, Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 1, 2010 - July 3, 2011, Historic Wing, Paul L. Davies Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Collection Highlights, November 2, 2002 - September 12, 2004, New Wing, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, First Floor, San José Museum of Art.

Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 22 -September 12, 1999, Second floor, New Wing, San José Museum of Art.

Photographic Highlights from the Permanent Collection, August 12, 1998 - January 3, 1999, Focus Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention, Selections from the Permanent Collection (2012-2011)

With ninety dollars in severance pay from a job as a darkroom assistant, Ruth Bernhard purchased photography equipment and a roll of Life Savers—the essential elements that made up her first still lifes. In Lifesavers (1930), light sharply illuminates the carefully placed candy and casts crisp, distinct shadows. An accomplished observer of light, Bernhard stated that: “Photography renders light as no other medium does. When the photographer knows by experience the qualities of light and the subtleties of his medium, light begins to glow in his photographs.”

Location Latitude: Exhibition, Modern Photographer, Davies Gallery, Longitude: //WB I 11C

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