The Philadelphia Museum of Art is presenting an exhibition of the works fine art photographer Judith Joy Ross, which will run April 26 through Aug. 6.
Since the early 1980s, Ross has used a large-format, 8×10-inch view camera to capture what the museum described as “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.” The exhibition will feature approximately 200 photographs encompassing Ross”™ work through all her major projects as well as smaller series and individual images that have never been seen before.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will be the only U.S. venue for the exhibition, following its European tour in Madrid, Paris and the Hague. Ross”™ work is including Manhattan”™s Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boston”™s Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Celia, 1980, by Judith Joy Ross. © Judith Joy Ross, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
