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In addition to our exhibition “Looking Out, Looking In: Larry Fink and Rosalind Fox Solomon with Lisette Model”, MUUS was pleased to have our photographers represented elsewhere at thanks to our gallery partners. Works by Deborah Turbeville, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Larry Fink, and André de Dienes were presented thanks to , , , , and . Thank you to all who attended this year’s presentations.

MUUS is thrilled to return to the Grand Palais for this year’s where we are debuting our exhibition “Looking Out, Looking In: Larry Fink and Rosalind Fox Solomon with Lisette Model”. Special thanks to and for lending the Lisette Model photographs and for their generosity and support in making this exhibition possible. Come visit MUUS at booth P01 through this Sunday, November 16.

📸 Marc Dommage

MUUS is proud to announce that Rosalind Fox Solomon’s “A Woman I Once Knew” has won the Photo-Text Book Award at . The hybrid memoir and photography book was published in the fall of 2024, combining text from Fox Solomon’s journals and self-portraits spanning her five-decade long career; it was praised in the as “an appraisal of a life well-lived, not necessarily out of happiness but through tenacity and vigor.”

Rosalind Fox Solomon, 1930-2025.

Remembering Rosalind Fox Solomon, pictured here in a self portrait from 1976, published last year in her powerful book “A Woman I Once Knew”. She will be greatly missed.

MUUS Collection is saddened to announce the passing of Rosalind Fox Solomon, a pioneering figure in photography and portraiture. 

Fox Solomon traveled the world to find her subjects, from Latin America to India, with a curiousness and intuition that gained her access into closed circles and communities. She was an iconic cultural figure who lived in her downtown loft for forty years, photographing in the neighboring Washington Square Park. To Fox Solomon, metaphors and symbols existed everywhere, in the events taking place on the streets and in the profound and intimate moments she shared with her subjects.

Born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1930, Fox Solomon graduated from Goucher College in Maryland before marrying Joel Warren (Jay) Solomon and moving to Chattanooga, Tennessee. There, she raised two children, her daughter, Linda, and son, Joel, while cultivating an interest in cross-cultural understanding. Her work with the Experiment in International Living brought her to Japan in 1968, where she began experimenting with photography. At the age of 38, she began photographing as a career, traveling to New York City to study with the influential photographer Lisette Model.

In 1979, Fox Solomon was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed her to expand her practice internationally. She photographed in Guatemala, Peru, India, South Africa, and beyond. These journeys culminated in numerous exhibitions, most notably the Museum of Modern Art’s Rosalind Fox Solomon: Ritual, a solo exhibition in 1986 dedicated to her work that solidified her status as a major figure in contemporary photography.

Fox Solomon remained active well into her nineties. Her final publication, A Woman I Once Knew (2024), is a poignant blend of memoir and self-portraits that traces the arc of a life lived with intensity, curiosity, and artistic bravery. 

As owners of Fox Solomon’s estate and stewards of her legacy, MUUS Collection is committed to continuing to promote and exhibit these important and masterfully printed bodies of photographs.

Read her full obituary on our website.

See Larry Fink’s work at with ! Included in the presentation is a 1966 image of Andy Warhol with a model outside the Humble Gents Social Club, and a 1964 image of teenagers in Harlem. On view until Sunday, June 22.

MUUS Collection is thrilled to announce the donation of the Fred W. McDarrah Estate to , New York’s first museum and one of the premier institutions for historical research and exhibitions in the United States. Following the success of the exhibition, “Fred W. McDarrah: Pride and Protest”, currently on view, The New York Historical has added the McDarrah Estate to its permanent collections, including approximately 51,000 prints, over 200,000 negatives, 9,000 contact sheets, and related ephemera.

After acquiring the estate in 2019, MUUS has elevated McDarrah’s legacy through exhibitions, scholarship, and extensive research of the archive, which has led to discoveries, including uncovering the historic significance of McDarrah’s 1966 Sip-In photograph, an act of protest inspired by the Civil Rights sit-ins. In addition to McDarrah’s documentation of gay liberation (including the Stonewall Uprising and never-before-seen images of influential activist Marsha P. Johnson), the archive also encompasses a range of social, political, and artistic phenomena spanning several decades. Included are portraits and candid imagery of the New York City artist community; pivotal moments in United States history, such as the March on Washington and the Vietnam War Protests; images of Andy Warhol’s Factory; photographs of Bob Dylan; and images documenting the shifting landscape and developing architecture in New York City.

Read comments from Executive Director , Founder Michael W. Sonnenfeldt, and The New York Historical’s President and CEO Louise Mirrer in the press release on our website.

Tonight! The opening reception for “Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy” curated by Lucy Sante will start at 5 PM at ’s galleries at 25 Dederick Street. Originally presented by MUUS for Paris Photo 2025, “Larry Fink: Sensual Empathy” celebrates Fink’s remarkable instinct for capturing the spirit of a given social moment. He famously pointed his lens on all levels of society, from New York and Hollywood gala revellers to the at-home partying of working class, rural Americans; from civil rights demonstrations to 1960s jazz giants. As notes, “All of those circumstances engaged his rapid eye, his almost painterly chiaroscuro, and his identification with the human beings he photographed, good, bad, or ugly.”

MUUS Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Sophie Wright as our new Executive Director. Formerly Executive Director of Fotografiska, New York, and previously head of the Cultural Department at Magnum Photos, Wright brings extensive experience at the intersection of arts and business. Following MUUS Collection’s acquisition of the Larry Fink Estate in 2024, Wright will lead an initiative to grow the reach of the organization through new strategic collaborations and strengthening its institutional partnerships.

MUUS Collection was delighted to welcome visitors to “Larry Fink: Creature Comforts” at . Thank you to all who attended, and special thanks to the team at AIPAD, whom we were thrilled to work with for our third year at the fair, this time as Lead Cultural Partner.

Curated by Peter Barberie, Interim head of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the exhibition combined previously unseen photographs from Fink’s seminal series “Social Graces,” and images of the natural world.

📸 Ed Cody

Happy 95th birthday to the inimitable Rosalind Fox Solomon, pictured here in a 1979 self portrait. Through her five decade career photographing others in faraway places, Fox Solomon also created an album of self portraits which she published last year in the autobiographical book, “A Woman I Once Knew” available at .