Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/27

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Subject: [Leica] photo history
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Fri Oct 27 09:29:10 2006

Mexico as Muse [Adobe Flash]
<http://www.sfmoma.org/modotti-weston/index.html>

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, photographers active in the first  
half of the 20th century, lived and worked together in Mexico for  
several years, and both believed that the country - and each other  -  
provided an important source of inspiration for their
art. This exhibition explores the intersections of Modotti and  
Weston's personal and artistic lives. Modotti learned photography  
from Weston, and her pictures, depicting workers on construction  
sites, loading bananas for shipment, or reading a Communist
newspaper, are more politically motivated than Weston's. Modotti,  
however, was the first of the two to photograph still life up close,  
creating images of flowers. Weston took up still life as well,  
creating some of his most famous pictures of vegetables
and shells. The online exhibition includes film of Modotti and  
Weston, an interview with art historian Patricia Albers, photographs  
by and of both artists, as well as digital versions of letters,  
albums and scrapbooks. [DS]

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com




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