Main entry:

Lowe, Sarah M., author.

Title & Author:

Tina Modotti : photographs / Sarah M. Lowe.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

Series:

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Notes:
Exhibition held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 16, 1995-November 26, 1995; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 17, 1995-February 25, 1996; and, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, March 28, 1996-June 2, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.
Foreword / Anne d'Harnoncourt -- Introduction / Sarah M. Lowe -- Tina Modotti: photographs / Sarah M. Lowe -- Plates -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Lenders to the exhibition -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photograph credits.
Also available online.

Summary:

This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. The beautifully reproduced duotone images in this book include portraits, still lifes (among them, Modotti's memorable "revolutionary icons" incorporating an ear of dried corn, a bandolier, a sickle, and a guitar), Mexican workers, folk art, street photographs, architectural studies, and flowers and plants. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before. In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. Lowe, curator, art historian, author of a book about Frida Kahlo, and contributor to Abrams' The Diary of Frida Kahlo, explores the forces that shaped Modotti's early family influences in Italy; her formative experiences in the bohemian communities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1910s; the relationship with legendary American photographer Edward Weston that provided her with her first photographic training; and the artistic and political circles she entered in Mexico. Lowe casts new light on Modotti's Mexican years, describing her relationships with a constellation of powerful artists, critics, activists, and journalists. Tina Modotti: Photographs is the catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition of Modotti's work, organized on the occasion of the centennial of her birth by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

ISBN:

0810942801
9780810942806
0876330952 (Museum ; pbk.)
9780876330951 (Museum ; pbk.)
0810927632 (pbk.)
9780810927636

Subject:

Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 Exhibitions.
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography, Artistic
Social conditions
Mexico Social conditions Pictorial works.
Mexique Conditions sociales Ouvrages illustrés.
Mexico
Photographs
Italy
Mexican Photographers.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

D'Harnoncourt, Anne, 1943-2008, writer of introduction.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., publisher.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, organizer, host institution.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, host institution.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, host institution.
United States New York (State) New York,

Holdings:

Location: Library main 107502
Call No.: ID TR140.M692 L6; ID:96-B1082
Status: Available