Roz Joseph

Roz Joseph (June 30, 1926 – December 25, 2019) was an American photographer. She took black-and-white photographs of New York City and color photographs of the local architecture and drag scene of San Francisco, California.

Photography career Joseph took photographs during her travels in Europe and North Africa, only to return to New York City, where she specialized in black-and-white images. Shortly after winning the grand prize in a photo competition run by the Saturday Review in 1963, Joseph returned to Europe.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Joseph's photographs were exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institute, the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Stanford University's Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, the Montalvo Arts Center, the Coos Art Museum in Oregon, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock in New York. Joseph had donated the photographs, the drafts of an unpublished book on the series and related professional records to the archives of the society in two lots in 2010 and 2016.

Personal life Joseph was born in 1926 in the Bronx, New York. She graduated from the City College of New York in 1947 with a bachelor's degree in education and subsequently took art and photography classes there.

Joseph married Elliott Joseph in 1948. They resided in Paris, in New York and finally in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Roz Joseph died of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at her home on December 25, 2019.

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