Private collection of Rod Mann Collector notes (Accessed: 27 April 2016)
When Ruth showed me this early portrait of her taken in Berlin, I was surprised that it would be sitting on that top shelf in her hallway closet along with prints of her own work. It seemed too personal. Then there was another surprise: a portrait taken 15 years further down the road by a famous photographer (Edward Weston) who she said changed her life. That was 1935 when she turned 15x2. Ruth gave me both portraits. This one runs full page in her biography on p.39. I thought she had told me she was 16, but in the book it says 15 and is cropped from what you see here. This has some rough edges which might explain the cropping if the print used for reproduction was similar.
