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Polish Shadow.
Photographs by Rosalind Solomon.
Steidl,
Gottingen,
2006.
80 pp.,
60 tritone illustrations,
6½x13".
Publisher's Description
For over 30 years Rosalind Solomon has been
producing emotional imagery that pulls the viewer
into a world of sun and shadow where past and
present intersect. As she explains of the light and
shadow here,“I made my first pictures in Poland
in 1988 during a time of political change, and
returned there in 2003 in an era of increasing
violence and inhumanity worldwide.” All of the
images in Polish Shadow are of individuals, their
relationships and environments, and each observes
and comments on Poland and the larger world:
some evoke the darkness of an earlier era and
the ghosts of ethnic violence, while others capture
a moment in the forward-marching life of modern
Europe. As one critic has put it,“Solomon embraces
her subjects with unusual warmth—a combination
of candor, curiosity and concern,” and that combination
of factors can make her photographs as
gut-wrenching as they are technically excellent.
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