Ruth-Marion Baruch | |
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 Self Portrait | |
| Born | 1922 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | 1997 (aged 74–75) San Rafael, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Photography |
Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997[1]) was an American photographer remembered for her pictures of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s.
Baruch was born into a Jewish family[2] in Berlin on June 15, 1922. She and her family migrated in 1927 to the United States. She gained a BA in English and Journalism from the University of Missouri in 1944. She studied photography at Ohio University, receiving an MFA in 1946[3] and at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in San Francisco 1946-1949[4] in the first class of students taught by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Homer Page, and Edward Weston after World War II.[5]
Baruch's works, in collaboration with photographer and husband Pirkle Jones, including Illusion For Sale,[6] and a series on the Black Panther Party taken from July to October 1968, [7] and a series on the hippies of Haight-Ashbury.
Baruch's photographs were exhibited in Perceptions at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1954, as well as Edward Steichen's New York Museum of Modern Art exhibition, The Family of Man in 1955.[8]
Donated by The Marin Community Foundation, The Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch Collection, an archive of photographs documenting the people, landscape, and politics of California in the mid-20th century, is the largest single gift in history, to UC Santa Cruz, with an estimated value of $32 million.[9][10]
