[Leica] photo history

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

thanks

ric


On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Lottermoser George wrote:

> 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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