Jerry Burchard's Photographic Influences

Andre Kertesz in his home in New York City. Jerry spent a couple afternoons with Kertesz, listening to Andre comment on his photographs. (photo by Jerry Burchard.)

English photographer Bill Brandt. (photo by Jerry.)

FSA photographer John Collier Jr. taught for many years at the San Francisco Art Institute. Jerry was one of his many students and later a fellow instructor at SFAI. (photo by Jerry Burchard taken in the 50's.)

Dorothea Lange also was one of Jerry's teachers at the San Francisco Art Institute. (photo by Jerry Burchard.)

Jerry Burchard appreciated the formal European compositions yet sometimes distorted photographic work of Bill Brandt and Andre Kertesz, along with the humanist qualities of the Farm Security Administration photographs by his instructors John Collier Jr. and Dorothea Lange.
Jerry would also mention that he very much enjoyed the photographs to be found in the National Geographic Magazines, and would have several of the magazines laying about wherever he lived.