"Angelwing" Shell

gelatin silver print

signed, titled, dated (pencil) and photographer stamp on verso

I try to be aware of light at all times, I am always watching for it. I am not looking at light because I am a photographer, I am photographing because I am deeply involved with light. Something happens when I am affected by a visual experience, it is meaningful beyond what I am looking at. When I look at a tree, I cannot forget the invisibles, the roots, the water system inside the tree. When I photograph, I try to make those invisibles felt. I identify with nature and natural objects. I become the thing I photograph. I have to fall in love with it.
Ruth Bernhard¹

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Ruth Bernhard. Fotografien 1930 – 1976, exh. cat. Galerie Albrecht, Berlin 2021, https://www.galeriesusannealbrecht.de/ruth-bernhard/