Artist Statement
In 2000, I made a series of photographs based on recurring objects from my dreams. The
resulting self-portraits deal primarily with hidden emotions rather than my physical being.

Artist Statement
Tattoos are all the rage in Philly - and elsewhere. I am interested in exploring the reasons
individuals get tattooed and how they are choosing to personalize a phenomenon that seems
to have suddenly gone mainstream. 

Artist Statement
From Philadelphia to the Front is the first documentary to focus on Jewish American World War II veterans. Many documentaries have been devoted to the topic of the destruction of European Jewry in Nazi-occupied Europe but relatively little attention has been focused on Jewish Americans who participated in the Allied victory in World War II. www.fromphiladelphiatothefront.com

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Contact Information
Crane Arts Building
1400 N. American Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
tel: 215-704-1938
email: mariannebern@mac.com
Please contact artist for purchases, commissions, etc.

Artist Bio
Marianne Bernstein, a photographer and filmmaker, has been living and working in Philadelphia for the past four years. She spent a large part of her career in New York City and New Haven doing commercial work as a photographer for the Muppets, Sesame Street, Maysles Brothers, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Yale Repertory Theater, as well as doing commissioned portraits of many New York and New Haven luminaries including Jim Henson and architect, Cesar Pelli. Her work has been published in Esquire, the Atlantic Monthly, Tatler, and the book New York at Night (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang).

Her personal work has been exhibited in Boston at the Photographic Resource Center, in New York City, at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, and extensively in galleries across Connecticut including Artspace, Erector Square Gallery, Artworks Gallery, and Real Art Ways.

She has received multiple awards including grants from the Honickman Foundation in 2005, the Leeway Foundation in 2003, “Best Arts Visionary” award from the New Haven Advocate, and the “Opening Doors, Opening Minds” award from the New Haven Arts Council, both in 1998.

Most recently she co-directed and produced, "From Philadelphia to the Front," an award winning documentary which has traveled to over 15 festivals worldwide. For more information visit: www.fromphiladelphiatothefront.com.