A Woman I Once Knew is a monumental and deeply personal monograph by the late American photographer Rosalind Fox Solomon. Published by MACK in the final year of her life, this volume gathers her self-portraits for the first time, covering a span from the 1970s to the 2020s. Solomon, who only began her career in middle age, used these private images to deconstruct the societal expectations of womanhood and the physical reality of aging. The 160 black-and-white plates show the artist performing for her own lens—sometimes in costumes, sometimes in states of raw vulnerability—creating a powerful, often unsettling narrative of a life lived “against the grain.” It is an essential document of 21st-century feminist photography and a testament to Solomon’s uncompromising artistic spirit.
