Girls in shawls
(1924-1929)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
13.2 × 16.9 cm (image and sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2024
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Tina Modotti is known for her socially and politically charged photographs documenting Mexican working life. For Modotti, art, life and politics were inextricably linked. Her photographs show the artist’s commitment to documenting the lives of women and working people. This image is believed to be from a project exploring the popular arts of Mexico, specifically the shawl-like rebozo, and exemplifies Modotti’s humanist style of documentary photography. It is one of the photographs anthropologist Frances Toor commissioned from Modotti and Edward Weston for the magazine Mexican Folkways, published between 1925 and 1937.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Mexico
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.r.: TM. 06002
Accession Number
2024.28
Department
International Photography