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Solomon, Rosalind, 1930- photographer
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  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title THEM.
Scope and content Rosalind Fox Solomon spent five months in Israel and the West Bank during 2010–11, working in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Nahariya, Bethlehem and Jenin. Travelling by local bus along with commuter workers, she photographed Jewish teenagers at Purim, Christians at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and Ghanaian pilgrims at the Mount of Olives. The photographs contain numerous interwoven narratives. Her photographs are informed by an acute sensitivity to lives conditioned by race and religion, ethnicity and location. “In my monograph, THEM, I wanted to express the chaos and pressure that was around me”. Punctuating the images are fragments of text – background conversations, recorded in Solomon’s journal
texts that reveal the humanity of each person photographed, a window onto lives conditioned by violence and uncertainty.
Creation Date 2009-2012
Citation Note ARC. 4* 2124 This Place archive, Archives Department, the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Extent 28 archival pigment prints
10X18 in..
Host Item This Place archive.
Language No linguistic content
Call Number ARC. 4* 2124 08
Level of Description Series Record
Biographical summary Rosalind Fox Solomon was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1930 and currently lives in New York City. She examines relationships and survival through portraits and ritual. The deep connection between her acquaintance with rejection, struggle and sorrow is evident in her imagery and poetry. She has worked extensively in the American South and in New York
Ancash, Peru and Kolkata, India.Solomon’s photographs are in the collections of over 50 museums and her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions. John Szarkowski chose 50 of her pictures for MoMA’s permanent collection, followed by her solo MoMA exhibition, “Rosalind Solomon, Ritual”.She is the recipient of numerous honors, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Society of Indian Studies. Her books include Chapalingas and Polish Shadow (Steidl)
THEM and Got to Go (MACK).
Ownership history The archive was donated to The National Library of Israel by the Lawrence D. Hite Family, June 2021.
Credits The Lawrence D. Hite Family "This Place" Photographic Archive, The National Library of Israel.
National Library system number 997011247026805171
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