Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

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Judith Joy Ross

'The Stewart Sisters, H.F. Grebey Junior High School, Hazleton, Pennsylvania 1992'

No reserve

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Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Judith Joy Ross

B. 1946

'The Stewart Sisters, H.F. Grebey Junior High School, Hazleton, Pennsylvania 1992'


gelatin silver printing-out-paper print, signed, titled, dated, and numbered '11/25' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1992

image: 9⅝ by 7⅝ in. (24.4 by 19.5 cm.)

frame: 17 by 15 in. (43.2 by 38.1 cm.)

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2005
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – April 2013

About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), p. 103 (this print)

Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 47 (this print)

Judith Joy Ross, Portraits of Hazleton Public Schools, Hazleton, Pennsylvania, 1992-1994 (New Haven, 2006), p. 35

Susan Kismaric, Judith Joy Ross (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 60

Judith Joy Ross, a native of Eastern Pennsylvania, spent most of her 40-year career photographing individuals in that region, including Hazelton, a working-class town located at the foothills of the Pocono mountains.  Her portraits of students at Hazelton High School captures the unease, awkwardness, energy, and innocence of the teenage experience.  Using an 8-by-10 inch camera, Ross create images with tremendous detail, while gold toning gives each print a lush, almost dreamlike quality.  A retrospective of Ross's work traveled internationally, beginning at Fundación MAPFRE in 2022 and ending at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2023.