Liberty theater / Rosalind Fox Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-2025, author.

Contributor:

Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley, writer of added commentary.

Stephen Bulger Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-2025--Exhibitions.

Solomon, Rosalind.

Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-.

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic.

Manners and customs.

Southern States--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Southern States.

Portrait photography.

Local Subjects:

Solomon, Rosalind, 1930-.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : MACK, [2018]

Summary:

"Liberty Theater by Rosalind Fox Solomon brings together her photographs made in the Southern United States from the 1970s to 1990s, never before published together as a group. Solomon's images depict a complex terrain of social and emotional issues inherited over generations: a world of class and gender divisions, implied and overt racism, competing notions of liberty, and lurking violence. Journeying through Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and South California, Solomon draws attention to cultural idiosyncrasies, paradoxes and theatrical displays: a Daughter of the Confederacy sits in costume with a china doll from her collection; a dead tree stump, fenced and suspended with wires is elevated to the status of a Civil War monument; African American boys examine a vitrine of guns as two white police manikins loom behind them. Poised between act and re-enactment, the animate and the inanimate, Solomon's images reveal how history becomes a vernacular performance and identity a form of theatre.-- Publisher's website (viewed on October 11, 2018)

Notes:

"Liberty Theater, a book of Rosalind Fox Solomon's images of the American South made in the closing decades of the 20th Century. The book will feature more than 60 photographs, selected from a larger body of work that is far-ranging in both its physical and psychic geography"--Artist's website: https://www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com/liberty-theater-2018/ (viewed on October 11, 2018)

"Rosalind Fox Solomon, Liberty Theater will be exhibited at Stephen Bulger Gallery, September 15--October 14, 2018."--Artist's website: https://www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com/liberty-theater-2018/ (viewed on October 11, 2018)

Includes essay by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.

ISBN:

9781912339228

1912339226

OCLC:

1043446618