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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Man with large basket on head
PUBLISHED TITLE: Mexican with Basket, ca. 1929

ca. 1927-29
gelatin silver print
9.5 x 7.2 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23293
74:0061:0165

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 100.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"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 last 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] "The scholar Sarah Lowe has noted that Modotti's photographs of workers were deeply aligned with a movement in photography of the 1920s known as Arbeiterfotograf, founded in Germany by the publisher, Willi Münzenberg. Advocated in in his magazine --AIZ-- (Workers Illustrated News), the Arbeiterfotograf movement was directed along political lines, and was intensely concerned with the circumstances of the world's working class. Due to the social content of her own work, Modotti saw several of her photographs reproduced in --AIZ--. [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
people, carrying
artifact, basket

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