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When was Hands Resting on a Tool made?
1927
When/where was Modotti born?
1896, northern Italian city of Undine
When did Modotti’s father, Giuseppe, immigrate to the US?
1905
What family member of Modotti’s immigrated to the US shortly after her father?
Her older sister Mercedes
When did Modotti work in a textile factory?
1909-12
When did Modotti immigrate to the US?
1913
What cities did Modotti go to when she first came to the US?
New York then San Francisco with her family
When did Modotti become interested in politics?
WWI
When did Modotti marry?
1917 or 1918
Who did Modotti marry?
The poet Roubaix “Robo” l’Abrie Richey
Who introduced Modotti to members of the SoCal artistic community?
Her husband
Where did Modotti and her husband live?
Los Angeles
Who did Modotti learn photography from and when?
Edward Weston, mid 1920s
When did Robo die?
1922
After Robo died, Modotti stayed in Mexico City to finish his work on an exhibition at the…
Escuella National d Bellas Artes
Weston and Modotti worked together in Mexico City from..
1923-26
When did Modotti focus her lense on political issues?
1927-30
Modotti’s close cropping, dramatic lighting, and sharp focus were used to…
Make familiar objects seem unfamiliar
When did Modotti write to Weston about the lack of spontaneity in her work?
1930
The position of the subject’s ______ gives the impression of a momentary pause in labor
Right hand
At what point does the tool especially appear dry and rough?
Where the metal is riveted into the wood
When did the Mexican Revolution begin?
1910
When was the Mexican Constitution written?
1917
When did the Mexican Civil War end?
1920
What artists were jumpstarted by the new Mexican’s government’s commissions and grants?
Rivera and Siqueiros
How did Weston convey indigenismo?
Photographing Mexican folk art and toys
When was Bandolier, Corn, Sickle made?
1927
When was Women of Tehuantepec made?
1929
When was Hands Washing made?
1927
When did the ‘Worker Photography’ movement begin?
1926
When did the worker photography movement take off in the US?
1930s
Weston and his friends were aware of the worker photography movement by the…
Late 1920s
In which of her few published writings did Modotti establish the political importance of photography?
‘Sobre la fotografia’ (1929)
Who made Mechanic and Steam Pump and when?
Lewis Hine, 1921
Max Fraser notes that during the Great Depression images of worker’s hands began to appear in…
Murals, magazines, photographs, and promotional films
What photographers of the 1930s were concerned with the hands of agricultural workers?
Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee
When did the Mexican government ban the communist party?
1929
When was Modotti deported?
1930
When did Modotti die?
1942
When did Modotti return to Mexico?
1939
What exhibition of Khalo and Modotti’s work reconsidered her work and life through feminism?
London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 1982
