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

PUBLISHED TITLE: Women of Tehuantepec

ca. 1929
gelatin silver print
7.6 x 6.8 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 23285
74:0061:0176

Constantine, Mildred. --Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life.-- New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1983. p. 115.//

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. Title from --Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life--. "Modotti sent many of her Tehuantepec photographs to Weston in the fall of 1929 for an exhibition he was organizing. In a letter to him dated September 17, 1929, she refers to the unsatisfactory condition of the images and the difficulties inherent in photographing her subjects: 'I am sending you a few of the snapshots done in T[ehuantepec]. forgive me but I am just sending you from the ones I happen to have duplicates on hand, same condition as the ones I am sending you, either messy or moved, all the exposures had to be done in such a hurry, as soon as they saw me with the camera the women would automatically increase their speed of walking; and they walk swiftly bu nature.'" [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECT: townscape, figures in

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