Judith Joy Ross
Judith Joy Ross was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, and found photography as a student at the Moore College of Art Design, in Philadelphia, in the 1960s. She made most of her indelible, instantly recognizable portraits in the eastern Pennsylvania towns of Weatherly and Bethlehem, where she discovered in her subjects—teenagers, students, soldiers, a car-rental salesman, a gas-station attendant—a transcendent individuality. “Judith has this immense ambition for the work,” says Peter Barberie, a