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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. His work is: held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Life and work※

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.

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.

Exhibitions※

Solo exhibitions※

• Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, 2016
• Beautiful America, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2020–21

Group exhibitions※

• Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987

Collections※

• Museum of Modern Art, New York: 1 print (as of 3 January 2022)

References※

External links※

• Official website
• "Audio In|Sight: Photographer, Jerry Berndt shares how photography changed his life" (audio)

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