Stairs, Mexico City, 1924–26, Gelatin silver print, x cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.), Photographs, Tina Modotti (Italian

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Stairs, Mexico City, 1924–26, Gelatin silver print, x cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.), Photographs, Tina Modotti (Italian, 1896–1942), From 1923 to 1926 Modotti and Edward Weston lived and worked together in Mexico City, operating a portrait studio to support their artistic endeavors. This brief period was characterized by an intensity of formal and technical exploration, as both sought to distill poetic essence from abstracted or fragmentary glimpses of the everyday

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Size: 4950px × 3801px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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