JUDITH JOY ROSS
2023-06-05The work of Judith Joy Ross marks a watershed in the lineage of the photographic portrait. Her pictures—unpretentious, quietly penetrating, startling in their transparency—consistently achieve the capacity to glimpse the past, present, and perhaps even the future of the individuals who stand before her lens. Since the early 1980s, Ross has used a large-format, 8×10-inch view camera as a tool to capture the distilled essence of her brief encounters with a cross-section of the American people, with a focus on those in eastern Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised.
Opposite – Untitled, Eurana Park, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, 1982
Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2023
Philadelphia Museum Of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
PA 19130