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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Two women in market
PUBLISHED TITLE: Two Women on a Porch, ca. 1929

ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
9.5 x 6.8 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 26860
74:0061:0173

Lowe, Sarah M. --Tina Modotti: Photographs.-- New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc./Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995. pl. 102.//

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 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]

SUBJECTS:
people, at work
architecture, market

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