Image: Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
The dedicated viewing room runs from 10 September to 10 October 2026. The selection includes photographs by Herman Leonard, P.H. Polk, Doris Ulmann, Graciela Iturbide, Doug & Mike Starn, Yamamoto Masao, and Candida Höfer.
The viewing room’s description presents Ruth Bernhard as a German American photographer who, after immigrating to the United States in 1927, became associated with the West Coast photographic movement and developed a style defined by carefully composed black-and-white images, dramatic light, and rich tonal range; it also celebrates her studies of the human body and still lives. Bernhard found the subject of one photograph crushed in the street in San Francisco’s Chinatown after being struck by a passing truck, recognized it as her own teapot, kept it for years, and eventually photographed it; the image is often cited as her final exposure.
Herman Leonard’s photograph ‘Miles Davis, Malibu, (MLD33),’ from 1989, captures Miles Davis in Malibu. The accompanying passage notes that, in the final decade of his life, Davis turned to visual art with the same intensity he brought to music, began sketching and painting around 1980 during a hiatus from performing, and used the practice to fill the silence between performances.
