Jerry Berndt (photographer)

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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]

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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

Books with contributions by Berndt

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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Collections

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