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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Market scene
PUBLISHED TITLE: Oaxacan Market Scene, ca. 1926-29

1929
gelatin silver print
7.6 x 10.1 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23294
74:0061:0170

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 85.//

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] "It is possible that this photograph were taken while Modotti was in Oaxaca." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
townscape, figures in
event

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