1928
Born in London

1945
St Martin’s School of Art

1947-67
Various jobs including prop manager at Sadler’s Wells, London

1967
Began work as Pictorial Journalist for a part-work publication of Purnell’s History of the Twentieth Century, subsequently becoming its Picture Editor

1972-80
Picture Editor of the Sunday Times Magazine, London

1980
Edited Photodiscovery – published by the Sunday Times – a highly respected account of the revolution in attitudes to photography which started in the 1960’s

1983
Edited The Bible and Its Painters, images of paintings from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, published by Orbis

1984
Curated The Salvage of a Photographer: photographs by John Deakin, at the V&A Museum, London

1985
Edited Vincent by Himself, letter extracts, paintings and drawings by Van Gogh, published by Orbis

1986
Edited The Impressionist Revolution, published by Orbis

1986
Sat for Lucian Freud etching, Head of Bruce Bernard

1987
Edited The Queen of Heaven, a visual anthology of narrative and devotional paintings on the theme of the Virgin Mary

1988-92
Visual Arts Editor of The Independent Magazine, London

1990
Began work on About Francis Bacon, a book which was (famously) never published

1991-2
Sat for painting by Lucian Freud: Bruce Bernard

1993-4
Selected a show of images from the Hulton-Deutsch Collection

1994
All Human Life: Great Photographs from The Hulton-Deutsch Collection, opens at the Barbican Gallery, London

1994
Wrote text for Humanity and Inhumanity: The Photographic Journey of George Rodger, published by Phaidon Press

1995-6
Sat for Lucian Freud’s Bruce Bernard Seated

1996
Edited monograph, Lucian Freud, with book designer Derek Birdsall, for publishers Jonathan Cape

1997
Began position as curator for James Moores, building for him The Bruce Bernard Collection of 100 Photographs

1997-99
Began editing Century: The History of the Twentieth Century in Photographs

1999
Century is published by Phaidon Press to worldwide acclaim

1999
Commissioned to take portraits of Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Euan Uglow and Leon Kossoff for a British Council exhibition

2000
Bruce Bernard died in London

2001
Bruce Bernard Photographs; Sculptures from the Tuileries Gardens, Paris and Lucian Freud’s Models, Focus Gallery, London

2002
100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard exhibited at the V&A, London, and a book published by Phaidon Press, edited by Mark Haworth-Booth

2001-05
Arts Council Hayward Touring Exhibition of Artists and their Studios by Bruce Bernard around the United Kingdom

2002
Portraits of Painters at Tate Gallery, London, curated by Paul Moorhouse

2003
100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh, as well as an exhibition of Bruce Bernard’s own photographs of painters

2003
Painter Friends: Photographs by Bruce Bernard, a British Council exhibition, tours Lodz and Warsaw, Poland

2006
Freud at Work: photographs by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson published by Jonathan Cape

2007
Freud at Work: photographs by Bruce Bernard and David Dawson at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery, London

2008
How to Improve The World: Sixty Years of British Art, the Hayward Gallery, London

2009
The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire

2010
The Artist’s Studio, The Sainsbury Centre, Norwich

2011-12
The Mystery of Appearance, Haunch of Venison Gallery, London

2014
Staging Sculptures, Modern Collections, London