Coming May 2024

A Woman I Once Knew

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A unique work of memoir formed of stark self-portraits made over the course of fifty years, interwoven with powerful texts providing a view of the artist’s personal journey.

At thirty-eight, while living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Rosalind Fox Solomon began a new life as a photographer. Studying with Lisette Model in the early 1970s, she honed the photographic voice which would define the prodigious half-century of work to follow. After moving to a loft in New York City in 1984, and travelling to Peru, India, South Africa, Cambodia, and beyond, she become renowned for her unflinching photography of everyday life around the world.

Throughout the same period, Solomon made self-portraits. Taking photography as a means of insistent introspection, over five decades Solomon studied the evolution of her aging body and embraced the self-estrangement her camera affords. A Woman I Once Knew brings these self-portraits together alongside extended texts by Solomon to form a unique work of autobiography, ambitious in its combination of image and text. Solomon’s writings allude to the periodic depressions and euphoric experiences in other cultures that defined her extraordinary life and shaped her empathetic approach to photography. They sit in fraught and suggestive dialogue with her revelatory self-portraits. A remarkable new work from an epochal photographer, this volume shows a startling rigorousness and sensitivity of self-examination which suggests the boundless possibilities of taking the self as subject.

Catalin Valentin’s Lamb

photographs and journal entries by Rosalind Fox Solomon

Foreword by Richard Minsky

Traveling the Peruvian Andes in 1981, Fox Solomon jumped off the back of a pickup truck to photograph a landscape and found a woman nursing a lamb.

A new form of artist book and pop-up display includes the story behind the photo as told by the artist’s journal entries, with five images by Fox Solomon relating to the narrative.

The cover photograph is printed in the Fox Solomon studio and preserved for permanent display with seven coats of hand-rubbed lacquer applied in the Minsky studio.