Ruth Marion Baruch

Ruth-Marion Baruch (1922–1997) was an American photographer remembered for her pictures of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s. Baruch was in the first class of students at the California School of Fine Arts begun by Ansel Adams and Minor White after World War II. These include 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 Arts exhibition, The Family of Man in 1955.

Contents

• Streetwise ruth marion baruch and the black panthers
• Ruth marion baruch and pirkle jones black panthers photography
• Photographic essays
• References

Baruch was born in Berlin on June 15, 1922, and later moved to the United States, where she studied photography at Ohio University (receiving an MFA) and at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in San Francisco.

Photographic essays

Her photographic essays include:

“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.

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. The Vanguard: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970).