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Judith Joy Ross, who has been taking portraits for decades, is the subject of a large retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Judith Joy Ross
American portrait photographer (born 1946)
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Ross at Zander Gallery, Köln, 2017 | |
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 1985 Photography |
Judith Joy Ross (born 1946) is an American portrait photographer.[1][2] Her books include Contemporaries (1995), Portraits (1996), Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools (2006) and Protest the War (2007), "exploring such themes as the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war".[3]
Personal life
Ross was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1946.
She graduated from the Moore College of Art in 1968 and earned a master's degree in photography in 1970 from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she studied with Aaron Siskind.
Works
Since the early 1980s, Ross has photographed a cross-section of the American population,