She studied intermittently with Lisette Model from 1971 to 1977.
Before photography
Later Solomon became the Southern Regional Director of the Experiment in International Living. In this capacity, she visited communities throughout the Southern United States, recruiting families to host international guests and interact with other cultures in a personal way.[2]
In 1968 Solomon's volunteer work with the Experiment in International Living brought her to Japan where she stayed with a family near Tokyo.[3] There, at age 38, Solomon began to use an Instamatic camera to communicate her feelings and thoughts. This was the starting point for her photography practice, which also includes prose related to her life experiences.[4]
Upon her return to the United States, Solomon photographed regularly. She purchased a Nikkormat in 1969 and in the garden shed she processed 35mm black and white film and printed her first pictures. In 1971, she began intermittent studies with Lisette Model during visits to New York City. By 1974 she was using a medium format camera.[5] Dolls, children, and manikins were some of her first subjects, along with portraits and rituals.[6] She works with black and white film exclusively.[3]
In 1975, Solomon began photographing at the Baroness Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She photographed people recovering from operations, wounds, and illness.[7][8]
In early 1977, Solomon photographed William Eggleston, his family and friends in Tennessee and Mississippi.[9] She moved to Washington where she photographed artists and politicians for the series "Outside the White House" in 1977 and 1978.[10][11]
In 1978 and 1979, she also photographed in the Guatemalan Highlands.[12] Her interest in how people cope with adversity, led her to witness a shaman's rites and a funeral and made photographs in Easter processions.[13][14]
In 1980, Solomon began her work in Ancash, Peru where she returned intermittently for over 20 years. She made photographs in cemeteries where damage from the 1970 Ancash earthquake was still apparent. She continued photographing shamans, cemeteries, funerals and other rituals. She also photographed people of a subsistence economy surviving the extremes of life through Catholic, Evangelist, and Indigenous rites.[14]
With a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, in 1981 Solomon began photographing festival rites in India. She found an expression of female energy and power in the forms of the goddess figures created in the sculptors' communities of Kolkata (Calcutta). In 1982 and 1983, she continued this work. While there, she photographed artists, including the painter, Ganesh Pyne and the filmmaker, Satyagit Ray. She also made portraits of the Dalai Lama and photographed Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.[14]
In 1987 and 1988, Solomon photographed people with AIDS alone, with their families, and with their lovers. The project resulted in the exhibition, Portraits in the Time of AIDS at the Grey Gallery of Art of New York University in 1988.[15]
In 1988, with concerns about the rise of ethnic violence in the world, she made her first trip to Poland. In 2003, she returned to work again in Poland.[16] In 1988 Solomon's interest in race relations and ethnic violence, took her to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe and South Africa. She continued the project in 1989 and 1990 in Northern Ireland and South Africa. In the 1990s, she visited hospitals in Yugoslavia and rehabilitation centers for victims of mines in Cambodia, and photographed victims of the American/Vietnam War near Hanoi.[17]
Solomon photographed in Israel and the West Bank for five months during 2010 and 2011, part of This Place.[18] She made portraits of people in Israel and the West Bank. She was photographing Palestinians in Jenin, and happened to be only a few minutes away when Israeli–Palestinian actor and director of The Freedom Theatre, Juliano Mer-Khamis, was gunned down in April 2011.[19][20]
Publications
Books, catalogues, etc of Solomon's photography
Some photobooks and catalogues by Solomon (flanked by irrelevant Pelicans). The slim black paperback is El Perú y Otros Lugares.
Union Depot: Photographed 1971–1973. Rosalind Solomon, 1973. Portfolio of 22 photographs. Edition of 100. OCLC665159920
Rosalind Solomon, Washington: May 15 – June 29, 1980. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery, 1980. Twenty-page exhibition catalogue, text by Jane Livingston. OCLC6603279
Rosalind Solomon: Venezia, 13. VII – 14. VIII. 1982. Venice: Ikona Photo Gallery, 1982. Eighteen-page exhibition catalogue, ed. Živa Kraus, text by Ljerka Mifka. OCLC45754749
Rosalind Solomon: India: An exhibition of photographs. New Delhi: M. Pistor for the United States Information Service, 1983. Sixteen-page exhibition catalogue, text by Will Stapp. OCLC37799484
Rosalind Solomon: Photographs, 1976–1987. Tucson, Arizona: Etherton Gallery, 1988. Thirty-two-page exhibition catalogue. With an essay by Arthur Ollman. OCLC18130563
Rosalind Solomon: El Perú y Otros Lugares = Peru and Other Places. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 1996. Exhibition catalogue. With an introductory essay by Natalia Majluf[Wikidata] and Jorge Villacorta; text in Spanish and English. OCLC37465560
Corazón: Songs and Music Recorded in Peru by Rosalind Solomon. Folkways Records FSS 34035, 1985. Recorded, produced and with photographs by Solomon. Reissued by Smithsonian Folkways. [n 1]
Indian Love Rites: Durga Puja and Kali Puja in Calcutta. Ethnic Folkways Records FE 4349, 1986. Recording produced by Solomon, and with photographs by her. The sounds of Durga Puja and Kali Puja. Reissued by Smithsonian Folkways.[n 2]
Other publications
John Szarkowski. Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. Catalog of exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 1978, and elsewhere, 1978–1980. ISBN0870704753, ISBN0870704761.[21]
Susan Kismaric. American Children: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1980. ISBN0870702327, ISBN0870702297.
Keith F Davis, ed. Wanderlust: Work by eight contemporary photographers from the Hallmark photographic collection. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards. Distribution: Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. ISBN0875296211.
Vincent Gerard and Cedric Laty. Eggleston on Film. 85 minutes. 2005[22]
Amerika: die soziale Landschaft 1940 bis 2006: Meisterwerke amerikanischer Fotografie = America: The social landscape from 1940 until 2006: Masterpieces of American photography. Bologna, Italy: Damiani; Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2006. ISBN9788889431689. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Kunsthalle Wien.
Gabriele Conrath-Scholl and Stephan Berg, eds. Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie = With Different Eyes: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography. Cologne: Snoeck, 2016. ISBN978-3-86442-158-7. Catalogue of the 2016 exhibition.
1996: Museo de Arte de Lima[Wikidata], Lima, Peru, El Perú y Otros Lugares = Peru and Other Places. Curated by Natalia Majluf and Jorge Villacorta.[35][36]
2003: Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany, Eleven Portraits of Eggleston.
2016: Die Photografische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur[Wikidata], Cologne; Kunstmuseum Bonn. Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie = With Different Eyes: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography.[83]
In 2007, the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography acquired Solomon's archive, which includes her photographic archive, books and video work.[1][88]
↑ Described here in the Smithsonian Institution's website.
↑ Described here in the Smithsonian Institution's website.
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↑ Kismaric, Susan (1980). American children, photographs from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. p.16. ISBN0870702327.
↑ Rosalind Solomon. Portraits in the Time of AIDS. New York: Grey Art Gallery & Studio Center, New York University, 1988. (Exhibition catalogue.)
↑ Tom Miller, "What's doing in Tucson", New York Times, 21 February 1988. Retrieved 23 July 2016
↑ "Rosalind Solomon", Museum of Contemporary Photography. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 24 June 2016.
↑ Michael Welzenbach, "Unmasking the Face through Photography", Washington Post, 17 November 1990. Here at Highbeam Research (partially behind paywall). Retrieved 28 July 2016.
↑ El Perú y Otros Lugares = Peru and Other Places. Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 1996. (Exhibition catalogue.)
↑ Amerika: die soziale Landschaft 1940 bis 2006: Meisterwerke amerikanischer Fotografie = America: The social landscape from 1940 until 2006: Masterpieces of American photography. Bologna, Italy: Damiani; Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2006. Exhibition catalogue.
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