Immersed in the flourishing Greenwich Village arts scene of the 1950s, Spencer Ross studied photography with some of the most famous mentors of that period. Soon, his own work received accolades. U.S. Camera magazine named him one of the young lions of photography. His photograph, “Street Scene in Siena,” is considered by some to be one of the finest street photographs of that era. For the next six decades, Ross traveled the world on business to 130 countries and he always took his camera along. His street scenes and nature photographs from those travels have hung in over 100 museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the IBM Gallery.
75 Years of Photography is a nonfiction book of photographs along with an essay on the history of photography as art and thought on the artistic process.
About the Book
Immersed in the flourishing Greenwich Village arts scene of the 1950s, Spencer Ross studied photography with some of the most famous mentors of that period. Soon, his own work received accolades. U.S. Camera magazine named him one of the young lions of photography. His photograph, “Street Scene in Siena,” is considered by some to be one of the finest street photographs of that era. For the next six decades, Ross traveled the world on business to 130 countries and he always took his camera along. His street scenes and nature photographs from those travels have hung in over 100 museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the IBM Gallery.
75 Years of Photography is a nonfiction book of photographs along with an essay on the history of photography as art and thought on the artistic process.