Lowe, Sarah M.

Tina Modotti & Edward Weston : the Mexico years / Sarah M. Lowe.

London ; New York : Merrell, in association with Barbican Art Gallery, 2004.

160 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston arrived in Mexico in 1923 at the start of an extraordinary period of artistic creativity that became known as the Mexican Renaissance. The book traces the interwoven lives and work of Modotti and Weston from the early 1920's in Los Angeles, where they met, until the 1930's, focusing in detail on their time together in Mexico, where virtually all of Modotti's photographs were taken. In bringing together for the first time close to 150 photographs by Modotti and Weston, it reveals the distinctive responses to Mexico of two photographers from widely different backgrounds. At the same time, like other Modernists in Mexico, these two artists self-consciously created work that broke wholly with the immediate past, and fashioned an idiom in defiance of traditional ideas. A selection of images by two Mexican photographers, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky, reveals how indigenous photography was influenced by these two foreigners.

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Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 Exhibitions.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 Exhibitions.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942.
Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942 Expositions.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 Expositions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photography Mexico Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photographie Mexique Expositions.
Photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
1920-1929.
Mexico.
Mexique.

Exhibition catalogues.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Modotti, Tina, 1896-1942.
Weston, Edward, 1886-1958.
Barbican Art Gallery.

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston

Location: Library main 238141
Call No.: BIB 167998
Status: Available