“We are the subject,” the title of the show currently on view at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, cites Lisette Model’s notion of the photographer’s subject matter: “We are the subject,” she writes in one of her teaching notebooks, “the object is the world around us.” There are nearly forty images—dense, intense, almost claustrophobic—included in […]
American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon is a master of precision and poise, capturing the most compelling moments in life. On April 2 – her 89th birthday –Solomon will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Centre of Photography. Solomon came to photography later than most, picking up an Instamatic camera at the age of... Read more »
After visiting the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY to view "The First 15: Photography from the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo" Rosalind Solomon's photo titled "Blind Girl and Dolls" stood out from the rest. I decided to acquaint myself with more of her work and her story. In a nutshell, Rosalind Solomon is inspired by travel, politics, and people (often those faced with hardship) . She has traveled around the world taking pictures since the 1970's. She's photographed in places such as Washington DC, Alabama, New Orleans, New York City, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala Highlands, Columbia, Northern Ireland, Italy, Poland, Yugoslavia, Israel, Jordan, West Bank, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tibet, India, Nepal, and Cambodia. According to her website www.rosalindsolomon.com... Solomon’s photographs are in the collections of over 50 museums. Her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and in 75 group exhibitions. [...] Rosalind Solomon was born in 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated from Goucher College in 1951 with a degree in Political Science. Following her graduation, she traveled to Belgium and France with The Experiment in International Living, an organization with which she remained closely associated for the next two decades. Solomon married and moved to Chattanooga, TN, in 1953 where she raised her two children. [...] In 1968 the Experiment sent Solomon to Tokyo, and it was there that she discovered photography. She began taking pictures with an Instamatic, expressing herself in a new way. A year later, she purchased a Nikkormat and set up her own darkroom. I'm attracted to her work because of it's candid and spontaneous nature, the pathos of her subjects, and the beauty of the compositions that seem to teeter upon the thin line between controlled and uncontrolled, deliberate and accidental.
American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon is a master of precision and poise, capturing the most compelling moments in life. On April 2 – her 89th birthday –Solomon will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Centre of Photography. Solomon came to photography later than most, picking up an Instamatic camera at the age of... Read more »
Taken in the homes of people with Aids, Rosalind Fox Solomon’s provocative pictures from the late 80s challenged the ‘victim culture’ that surrounded the illness
Between 1930 and 1964, Liberty Theater was the name of a non-whites only cinema owned by Rosalind Fox Solomon’s family in Chattanooga, Tennessee. “There was an irony in the name. I chose Liberty Theater as the title of this book because of its multiple meanings,” she says. “In a broader context, the title relates to performance and pretence in the theatre of life.” The photographs Liberty Theater collects together were taken through the 1970s to 90s in the southern United States, and have never before been published as a group. From Georgia to South California, through Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana, Solomon captured the complexity of race, class, and gender divisions. “I had no idea that photography would change my life,” says Solomon, who began photographing when she was 48, after graduating from college, getting married and raising two children. In 1977 she moved to Washington DC, where her husband worked for the General Services Administration, and visited New York City to study privately with Lisette Model.
The photographs in Rosalind Solomon’s “Portraits in the Time of AIDS, 1988,” an exhibition now on view at the Bruce Silverstein gallery, were …
American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon is a master of precision and poise, capturing the most compelling moments in life. On April 2 – her 89th birthday –Solomon will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Centre of Photography. Solomon came to photography later than most, picking up an Instamatic camera at the age of... Read more »
Doreen St. Félix writes about the photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon and the way that her images comment on the paradoxical race relations of the Southern U.S.
The influential photographer reflects on her extraordinary career, which is depicted in a new book and accompanying exhibition
Doreen St. Félix writes about the photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon and the way that her images comment on the paradoxical race relations of the Southern U.S.
Close to 40 when she first picked up a camera, photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon brings a world-wise eye to the everyday weirdness of American life
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Close to 40 when she first picked up a camera, photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon brings a world-wise eye to the everyday weirdness of American life
Solomon, an eighty-four-year-old photographer based in New York, was interested in the religious diversity of Israel and the West Bank.
