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. She also won the Purchase Award from the Concord Community Arts Department of the National Photography Competition. Joseph relocated to San Francisco in 1970, where she mainly took color photographs of the local architecture and drag queens. In 1991, she provided all the illustrations for Details: The Architect's Art, an art book by Sally Byrne Woodbridge that analyzes the decorative details of San Francisco buildings from the Victorian period to the 1940s. 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