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Modotti, Tina
American (b. Italy, 1896-1942)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of John Dos Passos

ca. 1927
gelatin silver print
9.6 x 7.2 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 26861
74:0061:0161

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi", Italy, Pordenone July 11 - September 27, 1992.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in ink) "Dos Pasos (sic)"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. "American writer and historian, John Dos Passos traveled to Mexico in late 1926 to research articles for the radical magazine, New Masses, which espoused political and social views Modotti ardently shared. It was sometime during this visit that she took this snapshot, later identifying Dos Passos by name on the front of the photograph." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Dos Passos, John
dress, serape

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