Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922 – October 11, 1997),[1] was a German-born American photographer, remembered for her pictures of the
San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s.[2]
Early life and education
Baruch was born into a Jewish family in
Berlin on June 15, 1922.[3] She and her family migrated in 1927 to the United States. She was raised in New York City, her father Max Baruch was a
neurosurgeon.[1]
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 U.C. Santa Cruz, with an estimated value of $32 million.[10][11]
Exhibitions
“Walnut Grove: Portrait of a Town," collaboration with Pirkle Jones, exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1964.
“Illusion For Sale,” San Francisco Museum of Art, 1965.[12][7]
Haight Ashbury, San Francisco's M.H. de Young Museum, 1968
A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers, collaboration with Pirkle Jones, exhibited de Young Museum, December 1968 through February 1969. This exhibition travels to the Studio Museum of Harlem in 1969.[13]The Vanguard: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970).
^Comer, Stephanie; Klochko, Deborah; Gunderson, Jeff (2006). The Moment of Seeing: Minor White at the California School of Fine Arts. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
^Frankenstein, Alfred (December 21, 1965). "Illusion for Sale Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Art". San Francisco Chronicle.
^Black Power Flower Power: Photographs by Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch. The Pirkle Jones Foundation. 2012. pp. 11, 12, 13.
ISBN978-0-9819933-8-6.