Art & the History of Art Judith Joy Ross: Photographer

Over the course of the past 30 years, Judith Joy Ross (b. 1946) has produced a remarkable oeuvre focusing on portraiture. She has been working in series since 1982, when she began her artistic career with photographs of Eurana Park, a small-town municipal park. Drawing on her own biography, she often makes references to universal social issues.

Ross, who uses a large-format camera and works in both black-and-white and color, has received numerous awards for her work and carries on the tradition of August Sander or Walker Evans’ “documentary style.” She is represented by by Pace/MacGill Gallery.

Free and open to the public, this lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art and the History of Art, the Mead Art Museum and the Office of the President at Amherst College.