Ruth-Marion Baruch


Ruth-Marion Baruch was an American photographer remembered for her pictures of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s.

Early life and education

Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922. She and her family migrated in 1927 to the United States. She gained a BA in English and Journalism from the University of Missouri in 1944. She studied photography at Ohio University, receiving an MFA in 1946 and at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco 1946-1949 in the first class of students taught by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Homer Page, and Edward Weston after World War II.

Photography

Baruch's work includes a series on the Black Panther Party taken from July to October 1968, in collaboration with photographer Pirkle Jones, and a series on the hippies of Haight-Ashbury. Baruch's photographs were exhibited in Perceptions at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1954, as well as Edward Steichen's New York Museum of Modern Art exhibition, The Family of Man in 1955.

Exhibitions