Robert Adams
Nebraska State Highway 2, Box Butte County, Nebraska, c. 1980.
Value: $10,000


Judith Joy Ross
Mrs Moyer’s 3rd Grade Music Class, Christmas Play Rehearsal, From the Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools, Hazleton, Pennsylvania 1992-1994
Value: $ 4,400

Robert Adams and Judith Joy Ross
Photographs donated to Artspace by the artists.

Robert Adams is a photographer and writer whose photographs have been the subject of numerous major exhibitions and more than thirty highly influential monographs including The New West, Denver, From the Missouri West, What We Bought, and Turning Back. He is also the author of three critical volumes of collected essays on photography. Among many awards Adams has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, and was awarded the Deutsche Borse prize in 2006. The Yale University Art Gallery recently acquired the artist's Master Sets and is currently organizing a major touring retrospective of the artist's work. He is represented by Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and Matthew Marks in New York.

Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished portrait photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Acclaimed for their emotional acuity, Ross' pictures are refreshingly unpretentious and astonishing in their psychological insight. In 2006, the Yale University Art Gallery published her most personal project to date, Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools, which explores the universally wonderful and terrifying rite-of-passage of going to school. She is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York.