Jerry Berndt
Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. He made work about the Combat Zone, Boston in the late 1960s. Berndt has posthumously had solo exhibitions at the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.
Jerry Berndt
- Born
- 1943 · Milwaukee.
- Died
- 2013 · Paris.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- photographer
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Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer. He made work about the Combat Zone, Boston in the late 1960s. Berndt has posthumously had solo exhibitions at the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.
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Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photographer. Born in Milwaukee, the photographer died in Paris. Jerry Berndt worked in Paris. Works by the photographer are held at Bibliothèque nationale de France, International Center of Photography and Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among others.
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His work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Berndt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA into a working-class family. He was based in Boston, Massachusetts on and off for three decades, beginning in the late 1960s. He was a self-taught photographer who made work about an area of Boston known as the Combat Zone (1967–1970); 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). 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.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, 2016 • Beautiful America, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2020–21
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987
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Books by Berndt
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.. • Beautiful America: Protest, Politics and Everyday Culture in the USA, 1968–1980. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2018. Edited by Maik Schlüter..
Books with contributions by Berndt
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.. • Orphans of the Rwanda Genocide. Text by Donald E. Miller and Lorna Touryan Miller and photographs by Berndt. Pasadena, CA: New Vision, 2004.
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• Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 print (as of 3 January 2022)
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- 1.Grossien, Nils. Vita. Jerry Berndt.
- 2.Marquard, Bryan. Jerry Berndt, 69; photographer captured images of dispossessed. The Boston Globe.
- 3.Zimmer, William. ART;The Artist, in Personal as Well as Commercial Mode. The New York Times. 21 April 1996. 0362-4331.
- 4.Jerry Berndt. www.cnap.fr.
- 5.What the FBI wanted with photographer Jerry Berndt. Deutsche Welle.
- 6.Jerry Berndt. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 7.Jerry Berndt, 'The Combat Zone'. Time Out Paris. 22 July 2015.
- 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.
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