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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Market scene

ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
9.9 x 7.3 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 41968
74:0061:0171

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: verso-(in ink) "Too bad the woman moved! Does the market place not look like a greek temple?"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. "In this work Modotti viewed the columned architecture of Tehuantepec as exhibiting, like the woman it frames, a serene nobility. She remarked on the back of this photograph, 'Too bad the woman moved! Soes the marketplace not look like a greek temple?'" [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECT: townscape, figures in

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