Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer.[1][2][3] He made work about the Combat Zone, Boston in the late 1960s.[2] Berndt has posthumously had solo exhibitions at the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris[4] and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.[5] His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.[6]
Life and work
editBerndt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA into a working-class family.[1]
He was based in Boston, Massachusetts on and off for three decades, beginning in the late 1960s.[2] He was a self-taught photographer who made work about an area of Boston known as the Combat Zone (1967–1970);[7] a homeless shelter on Boston's Long Island in the early 1980s; the living conditions of people in San Salvador (1984), and Haiti at a time of civil unrest (1986–1991); the First Nagorno-Karabakh War in Armenia (1993–1994); and orphans from the Rwandan genocide (2003–2004).[2][5]
Berndt moved to Paris in the late 1990s. He was found dead in his Paris studio on July 10, 2013, probably from a heart attack, aged 69.[2]
Publications
editBooks by Berndt
edit- Missing Persons the Homeless. Boston: Many Voices, 1986.
- Armenia: Portraits of Survival. Self-published, 1994. With an introduction by Donald E. Miller.
- Insight. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008. Edited by Felix Hoffman and Maik Schlüter. ISBN 9783865217257.
- Beautiful America: Protest, Politics and Everyday Culture in the USA, 1968–1980. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2018. Edited by Maik Schlüter. ISBN 978-3-86930-898-2.
Books with contributions by Berndt
edit- Armenia: Portraits of Survival and Hope. University of California Press, 2003. Text by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller, photographs by Berndt. ISBN 9780520234925.
- Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide. Text by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller and photographs by Berndt. Pasadena, CA: New Vision, 2004.[8]
Exhibitions
editSolo exhibitions
edit- Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, 2016[4]
- Beautiful America, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2020–21[5]
Group exhibitions
edit- Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987[9]
Collections
edit- Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 print (as of 3 January 2022)[6]
References
edit- ^ a b Grossien, Nils. "Vita". Jerry Berndt. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ a b c d e Marquard, Bryan. "Jerry Berndt, 69; photographer captured images of dispossessed". The Boston Globe.
- ^ Zimmer, William (21 April 1996). "ART;The Artist, in Personal as Well as Commercial Mode". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ a b "Jerry Berndt". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ a b c "What the FBI wanted with photographer Jerry Berndt". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ a b "Jerry Berndt". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ "Jerry Berndt, 'The Combat Zone'". Time Out Paris. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ^ "Out of Rwanda's horror, abiding bonds of love emerge". Los Angeles Times. 8 April 2007.
- ^ "Photography: Recent Acquisitions". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
External links
edit- Official website
- "Audio In|Sight: Photographer, Jerry Berndt shares how photography changed his life" (audio)
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