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

TITLE ON OBJECT: Veracruz
PUBLISHED TITLE: Loading Bananas, Veracruz, ca. 1927-29

ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
9.9 x 7.4 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23290
74:0061:0167

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 82.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Cubism and American Photography, 1910-1930", US, NY, Rochester December 18, 1981 - February 14, 1982.//
"Tina Modotti: Photographs", US, PA, Philadelphia - November 26, 1995.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in ink) "Veracruz"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. Variant image published in --Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life-- under title "Loading bananas on a ship, Vera Cruz". Published title and date from --Tina Modotti: Photographs--. "Many of Modotti's photographs attest to the backbreaking labors performed by Mexico's working and lower classes, as seen here in the loading of fruit onto boats in the port of Veracruz. Modotti possibly took this photograph while visiting the nearby city of Xalapa for a meeting of the Communist party." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECT: people, at work

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