Bruce Bernard

Bruce Bernard /bərˈnɑːrd/ (21 March 1928 – 29 March 2000) was an English picture editor, writer and photographer. He wrote for the Sunday Times and the Independent and photographed many influential artists in a career lasting nearly 40 years.

Bernard was born in London, and was the middle of three sons to the English architect Oliver Percy Bernard and his opera singer wife Dora Hodges (d. 1950), who performed under the name of Fedora Roselli. His siblings were the poet Oliver Bernard, and the columnist Jeffrey Bernard. Through his paternal ancestry, Bernard was a third cousin to the actor Stanley Holloway (Bernard's grandfather Charles (d.1894) was a brother to Holloway's maternal grandmother). Owing to this, he was distantly related to Holloway's son, the actor Julian Holloway and Julian's daughter, the author and former model, Sophie Dahl.

Bernard had brief spells at a number of boarding schools, eventually finishing at Bedales School. From there he attended, albeit briefly, St Martin's School of Art, before falling into a number of menial jobs within London's Soho. He became a picture editor for History Of the 20th Century in 1968 before moving to the Sunday Times's magazine as a picture researcher in 1972; he later became the paper's picture editor, a post he held until 1980. It was during this time that he produced Photodiscovery: Masterworks of Photography 1840-1940, which became his most successful work.

He left the Sunday Times and joined The Independent where he wrote for the paper's magazine. He wrote Vincent By Himself, about the painter Vincent Van Gogh. The book juxtaposed Van Gogh's paintings and drawings and featured excerpts from the letters to the painter's brother, Theo Van Gogh. He also frequently wrote short articles under pseudonyms, including Joe Hodges and Deirdre Pugh, for the Independent.

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