Judith Joy Ross - Portraits - 1996

VERY SCARCE title by American photographer Judith Joy Ross - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

Published on the occasion of the same-named exhibition at Sprengel Museum Hannover.

New, mint, unread.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

Sprengel Museum Hannover. 1996. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 245 x 285 mm. 64 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Judith Joy Ross. Graphic design: Jörg Werner. Tranlation: John Brogden, Dortmund. Text: Thomas Weski. Text in English and German.

Great photobook by Judith Joy Ross - in perfect condition.

Judith Joy Ross was born 1946 in Hazleton, USA.
Judith Joy Ross studied at the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia.
She graduated there in 1968 and went on to study with Aaron Siskind and others at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where she gained her Master's degree in 1970.
Judith Joy Ross works with a large format camera, 8 × 10 inches. She produces contact prints for presentation.
In the 1980s, she photographed a cross-section of the US population, primarily in Pennsylvania. She also pursued photographic projects such as a series on visitors to the memorial for US soldiers who died in the Vietnam War (1983-1984/Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.) and portrait series of members of Congress and their staff (1986-1987). She was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to photograph employees of the IT and high-tech industry in California's Silicon Valley. Judy J. Ross cites August Sander and Diane Arbus as role models for her work.