Len Bernstein is a photographer and educator who has taught students from kindergarten through college, and whose images are in many private and public collections including The Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Bibliotheque nationale de Franc...More
Len Bernstein is a photographer and educator who has taught students from kindergarten through college, and whose images are in many private and public collections including The Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris. His articles--published in the US and abroad--are informed by a careful study of the medium, and Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by Eli Siegel. His book, Photography, Life, and the Opposites, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dr. Robert Coles, is based on the Siegel Theory of Opposites. Working with digital and film formats, Bernstein sees the photographic image as a precious object and as a democratic blueprint for how people hope to see the world they are meeting every day. He often presents workshops and papers with his wife and colleague Harriet Bernstein, where they speak about the relation of art and life, including how the art way of seeing has in it the answers to what people are hoping for in the family, marriage, and love.
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The Arts in Society
