Unknown in Europe, specialist in the photographic chamber, the American exhibits her portraits for the first time in France.Works of a striking simplicity, giving the unique feeling of having grasped the essentials in each of his models.
In the Café du Bal, dead end of Europe, in Paris, this afternoon in March, she takes a small nap, lying on a bench.We don't mind her.American photographer Judith Joy Ross, 76, inaugurates her first personal exhibition in France.Even if historians and authors photographers across the Atlantic agree to recognize her undeniable talent, she remains unknown in Europe.Judith Joy Ross does not explain it and don't care.Rauca voice, square face framed by a fringe of white and drus hair, old -fashioned glasses, the lady, of a brave shyness, hesitates before telling herself generously;then let go of a big word laughing.If she does not have the ease of a celebrity, she displays the assurance of those who have found their vocation.As far as it is concerned: carrying out portraits of striking Americans of simplicity, who do not judge or caricat the models.
The photographer was born, in 1946 in Hazleton, a small town in Pennsylvania.She says pampered childhood, surrounded by two brothers, a father managing de convenience stores and a piano teacher mother.The adolescent girl with drawing obtained, in 1966, a scholarship for the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia: "One day by chance," she says, "I take a photo with one of the Yasica 6 x 6Our layout in the classroom.I then became crazy!Finally, what I saw was changing in pictures.While I was shy, I had found a way to meet the others.»»
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