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Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools
Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America’s major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross’s most personal series to date—sixty-seven portraits of students at public schools in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.
In the early 1990s, Ross returned to the schools of her youth as a way of revisiting the experience of growing up. Shot with an old-fashioned 8 x 10-inch view camera, the photographs in Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools are unpretentious and astonishing in their psychological insight. Shown together for the first time in this volume, they reveal the universally wonderful and terrifying rite of passage of going to school.
In the early 1990s, Ross returned to the schools of her youth as a way of revisiting the experience of growing up. Shot with an old-fashioned 8 x 10-inch view camera, the photographs in Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools are unpretentious and astonishing in their psychological insight. Shown together for the first time in this volume, they reveal the universally wonderful and terrifying rite of passage of going to school.
88 pages, Hardcover
First published February 28, 2006
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Judith Joy Ross
9 booksJudith Joy Ross is an American photographer known for capturing the innocence of youth, the faces of political power, and the emotional toll of war through her photography. Born in 1946 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, she currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her education includes studies at the Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Influenced by Aaron Siskind, August Sander, and Diane Arbus, her work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Canada, Die Photographische Sammlung, the Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 Photography, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, a city of Easton, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, the Charles Pratt Memorial Award, and the Andrea Frank Foundation Award.
Influenced by Aaron Siskind, August Sander, and Diane Arbus, her work has been exhibited at prestigious institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the National Gallery of Canada, Die Photographische Sammlung, the Pilara Foundation Collection, Pier 24 Photography, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She has been honored with the Guggenheim Fellowship, a city of Easton, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Grant, the Charles Pratt Memorial Award, and the Andrea Frank Foundation Award.
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January 19, 2018
Beautiful timeless portraits capturing some very normal yet honest moments.
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