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

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Mexican archway

ca. 1925
gelatin silver print
7.3 x 9.6 cm.
Museum Collection
GEH NEG: 41965
74:0061:0183

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Modernists in New Mexico", US, CT, Stamford September 27 - December 27, 1996.//
"Modotti and Weston: Mexicanidad", US, NY, Rochester February 15 - May 4, 1997.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(rubberstamp) "Edward Weston Collection"

NOTES: Catalogued 10/87, DZ. "One of the first subjects to preoccupy Modotti after her arrival in Mexico was native architecture - adobe houses, village streets and especially, archways. As an emerging photographer, Modotti reveled in the formal characteristics of her subjects, the interaction of form and light, and the unique sculptural design. Yet they also attest to her absorption of Mexican culture as seen through the intense gaze of the camera's eye. Like Modotti, Weston himself would find in Mexican architecture, both ancient and modern, a dialogue between form and light that would resonate with his new modernist approach to picture-making." [Therese Mulligan, 1/97]

SUBJECTS:
street scene, figures in
architecture, archway

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