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ROSALIND SOLOMON
Mother and Daughter, Brighton Beach, New York, 1984
Gelatin silver print, 2005
signed, titled and dated on verso
Image: 38.5 cm x 38.5 cm
AP (Edition of 5)
Image courtesy the artist and Silverstein Gallery, New York
Rosalind Solomon was born in 1930 in Highland Park, Illinois. She decided to become a photographer in 1968 after traveling in Japan, Thailand, and Cambodia, and went on to study photography with Lisette Model in the early 1970s. Speaking of her introduction to photography, Solomon has said, “I got the nerve to dream of making... pictures... after I learned about (the work of) Eugène Atget and Julia Margaret Cameron.” Though Solomon is perhaps most famous for her portraits, her oeuvre also includes pictures about the rituals and rhythms of non-industrial life in the cultures of such places as India, Haiti, Colombia, Poland, Mali, Zimbabwe, and her native United States. Mother and Daughter, Brighton Beach is reproduced in her most recognized monograph is Chapalingas, published by renowned publisher Steidl and Photographische Sammlung, Cologne. Solomon has exhibited at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among others, and most recently at Presentation House Gallery in the exhibition Lisette Model and her Successors in 2008.
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