Jerry Berndt
photographer
Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) was an American photojournalist and documentary photographer known for his work documenting social issues and conflict zones. He spent three decades based in Boston, Massachusetts, where he produced significant works on the 'Combat Zone' red-light district (1967–1970), homeless shelters, and civil unrest in Haiti and San Salvador. Berndt was a self-taught photographer whose work straddles the line between spontaneous documentary photography and conceptual artwork. He moved to Paris in the late 1990s, where he lived until his death in 2013. His photographs have been included in permanent collections at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris, and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.[1,2,3]
- documentary photography
- social issues
- conflict zones
Books
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Insight€110.00
Works by Jerry Berndt
- 2008 Insight Edited by Felix Hoffmann and Maik Schlüter.
- 1986 Missing Persons the Homeless
- 1994 Armenia: Portraits of Survival With an introduction by Donald E. Miller.
- 2018 Beautiful America: Protest, Politics and Everyday Culture in the USA, 1968–1980 Edited by Maik Schlüter.
Exhibitions
- 2016 Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America
- 2020 Beautiful America
- 1987 Photography: Recent Acquisitions
Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship