Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 19782015

Judith Joy Ross (born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1946) studied photography under Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago in the 1960s. Her work was first acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1984, and was included in John Szarkowski’s landmark 1990 MoMA survey, Photography until Now. Ross’s work is now held in public and private collections around the world, and she has received numerous awards, including the 2017 Lucie Award for Achievement in Portraiture. She has published seven monographs.Joshua Chuang is the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Associate Director for Art, Prints and Photographs and Robert B. Menschel Senior Curator of Photography at the New York Public Library. Among the exhibitions and publications he has organized are Robert Adams: The Place We Live (2010), Blue Prints: The Pioneering Photographs of Anna Atkins (2018), and Santu Mofokeng: Stories (2019). Svetlana Alpers is an art historian, professor, writer, and critic. Her specialty is Dutch Golden Age painting, and she is author of the 1983 book The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Alpers has also written on Pieter Bruegel, Peter Paul Rubens, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Diego Velázquez, among others. Addison Bross is a scholar, writer, and professor emeritus of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.