Joyce Baronio is an American photographer born in 1947. She studied art history at Kenyon College in Ohio before attending Yale University, where she participated in a photography course taught by Walker Evans. Her work often focuses on the human condition, particularly within marginalized communities. In the mid-1970s, she spent four years photographing men and women performing in sex shows in New York City's red light district. Her 1980 book '42nd Street Studio' gained international success for its collection of black and white photographic portraits of strippers and prostitutes, aiming to reveal their humanity by capturing them in natural daylight.[3,4]
