CALIFORNIA MID-CENTURY: John Bertolino
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John Bertolino, The Girl on the Bench (Italy), c. 1950, Vintage gelatin silver print, 8.75" x 6.75". Signed with address in pencil on verso. Matted. Provenance: Estate of Nata Piaskowski. Exhibited: "Italy - Photographs by John Bertolino," M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1952; "Perceptions," SFMOMA & traveling, 1954; "Perceptions: Bay Area Photography 1945-1960," Los Angeles Valley College, 2006.
Artist Biography: After serving as a tail gunner in the United States Army during World War II, John Bertolino traveled throughout Europe and the United States before enrolling in the photography program at the CSFA. In 1950 he returned to Italy with his Leica camera. Employing a direct and sensitive approach to documentary photography he produced an eloquent record of contemporary Italian life. This work, exhibited at the M.H. de Young Museum in 1952, was described by critic Alfred Frankenstein as “proletarian realism… all very true to life because it is also very true to the art of photography. Everything is beautifully placed and the resonances of tone are beautifully handled.”
Education: California School of Fine Arts, 1948–1950.
Selected Exhibitions: Italy: Photographs by John Bertolino, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, September 1952 (and traveling to Italy) and St. Mary’s Mission, San Francisco, June 1957. Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, August–September 1954. Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January–May 1955.
Selected Publications: Andy Geçan, “Profile of an Artist,” Viewpoint, 3:9, 1 September 1950, pp. 10–11. Arthur Bloomfield, “Italian Camera Studies On Display at de Young Museum,” San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 25 September 1952, p. 3G. Alfred Frankenstein, “A Collection of Feathers Takes On a Serious, Majestic Tone,” San Francisco Chronicle, (This World), 5 October 1952, p. 30. Dody Warren, “Perceptions,” Aperture 2:4, 1954, p.17. Edward Steichen, The Family of Man, 1954, p. 102. Alfred Frankenstein, “The Lively Arts: ‘Family of Man’—N.Y. Museum Shows Photos,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 January 1955, p. 15. San Francisco Chronicle, (This World) 30 June 1957, p. 14. (source: Paul Hertzmann)
Artist Biography: After serving as a tail gunner in the United States Army during World War II, John Bertolino traveled throughout Europe and the United States before enrolling in the photography program at the CSFA. In 1950 he returned to Italy with his Leica camera. Employing a direct and sensitive approach to documentary photography he produced an eloquent record of contemporary Italian life. This work, exhibited at the M.H. de Young Museum in 1952, was described by critic Alfred Frankenstein as “proletarian realism… all very true to life because it is also very true to the art of photography. Everything is beautifully placed and the resonances of tone are beautifully handled.”
Education: California School of Fine Arts, 1948–1950.
Selected Exhibitions: Italy: Photographs by John Bertolino, M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, September 1952 (and traveling to Italy) and St. Mary’s Mission, San Francisco, June 1957. Perceptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, August–September 1954. Family of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, January–May 1955.
Selected Publications: Andy Geçan, “Profile of an Artist,” Viewpoint, 3:9, 1 September 1950, pp. 10–11. Arthur Bloomfield, “Italian Camera Studies On Display at de Young Museum,” San Francisco Call-Bulletin, 25 September 1952, p. 3G. Alfred Frankenstein, “A Collection of Feathers Takes On a Serious, Majestic Tone,” San Francisco Chronicle, (This World), 5 October 1952, p. 30. Dody Warren, “Perceptions,” Aperture 2:4, 1954, p.17. Edward Steichen, The Family of Man, 1954, p. 102. Alfred Frankenstein, “The Lively Arts: ‘Family of Man’—N.Y. Museum Shows Photos,” San Francisco Chronicle, 26 January 1955, p. 15. San Francisco Chronicle, (This World) 30 June 1957, p. 14. (source: Paul Hertzmann)
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CALIFORNIA MID-CENTURY: John Bertolino
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