Oral history interview with Rosalind Fox Solomon
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded as 2 digital, wav sound files. Duration is 4 hr., 30 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-
label: Interviewer
content: Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-
label: Names
content: Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists
label: Occupation
content: Authors
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Women photographers
label: Topic
content: Jewish artists
label: Topic
content: LGBTQ+
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-
label: Interviewer
content: Yablonsky, Linda, 1948-
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Rosalind Fox Solomon (1930-2025) was a fine art photographer in New York, New York. From 1987 to 1988, she photographed people living with HIV/AIDS, many of whom were young men. Solomon showed the photographs in the exhibit Portraits in the Time of AIDS at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University in 1988. Solomon was a woman of Jewish heritage who did photographic projects of various cultural groups internationally, including in Central America, South America, South Asia, West Asia, Southeast Africa, and South Africa.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewer Linda Yablonsky (1948- ) is a writer in New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 140 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Recorded on Tascam DR-100MKII R000326
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 October 29 and 31
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.solomo16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview with Rosalind Fox Solomon conducted 2016 October 29 and 31, by Linda Yablonsky, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Solomon's home and studio in New York, New York.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Solomon speaks of her childhood in Highland Park, Illinois; moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee with her first husband in 1953; beginning to take photographs in the late-1960s; formative international travels; moving to Greenwich Village in 1984 after her divorce; her body of photographic and audiovisual work and exhibitions; meeting and photographing people living with HIV/AIDS; taking photographs internationally; being an outsider in the 1980s New York art world; and changes in her work routine from the 1980s to the present. Solomon also recalls Charles Counts, Lisette Model, Henrietta Brockman, Jane Livingston, Weston Neff, John Szarkowski, Father Bill McNichols, Tom Sokolowski, Vince Aletti, Sarah Meister, Arthur Ollman, Peter Galassi, Roxana Marcoci, Peter Eleey, and others.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Rosalid Solomon Papers are held by the Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon, Arizona.