In a room hung with empathetic black-and-white photographic portraits for her retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judith Joy Ross, frail-looking and white-haired, was recently taking pictures for her next series. Posing a guard in front of her old-fashioned wooden view camera, she chattered on in an obscenity-laced monologue about her ineptitude. “That’s great,” she gushed. “Everybody can see that’s great. Ross turned to me and said, “People don’t like to be photographed, but photographers also don’t like to photograph.

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Persons: Judith Joy Ross, “, Ross, it’s Organizations: Philadelphia Museum of Art