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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Woman carrying child
PUBLISHED TITLE: Woman with Child at Market Carrying Basket, ca. 1929

ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
9.6 x 6.7 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 41969
74:0061:0162

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 103.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Tina Modotti: Gli Anni Luminosi", Italy, Pordenone July 11 - September 27, 1992.//
"Tina Modotti: Photographs", US, PA, Philadelphia - November 26, 1995.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. Published title and date from --Tina Modotti: Photographs--. "The final months of 1929 were to be, for the most part, Modotti's las as an active photographer. In late summer, she traveled south to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and photographed, perhaps for as long as a month, the women of Tehuantepec at work..." [Sarah M. Lowe, --Tina Modotti Photographs--, p. 42] "In this work Modotti viewed the columned architecture ot Tehuantepec as exhibiting, like the woman it frames, a serene nobility." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
portrait, mother & child
townscape, figures in

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