Jerry Berndt (photographer)

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

Berndt 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

Books by Berndt
  • 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
  • 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

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

References
  1. Grossien, Nils. "Vita". Jerry Berndt. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  2. Marquard, Bryan. "Jerry Berndt, 69; photographer captured images of dispossessed". The Boston Globe.
  3. 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.
  4. "Jerry Berndt". www.cnap.fr. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  5. "What the FBI wanted with photographer Jerry Berndt". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  6. "Jerry Berndt". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  7. "Jerry Berndt, 'The Combat Zone'". Time Out Paris. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
  8. "Out of Rwanda's horror, abiding bonds of love emerge". Los Angeles Times. 8 April 2007.
  9. "Photography: Recent Acquisitions". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
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