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