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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Edward Weston photograph of Tina Modotti nude lying on the rooftop

Edward Weston

Nude (Tina on the Azotea), 1923
Gelatin silver contact print
6 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (16.8 x 23.8 cm)
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Printed by the photographer, 1941-42, and mounted at the time. Initialed and dated, in pencil, on mount recto. Signed in full, dated and annotated by the photographer and with the...
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Printed by the photographer, 1941-42, and mounted at the time. Initialed and dated, in pencil, on mount recto. Signed in full, dated and annotated by the photographer and with the Beaumont and Nancy Newhall Collection notations, in pencil, on mount verso. Ex-collection of Beaumont & Nancy Newhall, New Mexico.
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Provenance

Note: This print comes from the personal collection of Beaumont (and Nancy) Newhall, the founding curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art.

Literature

Beaumont Newhall (ed.), The Daybooks of Edward Weston, (New York: Aperture, 1973), Vol. I Mexico, pl. 15 [variant cropping]; Ben Maddow, Edward Weston: Fifty Years, (New York: Aperture, 1973), p. 107 [variant cropping]; Amy Conger, Edward Weston Photographs from the Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, (Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, 1992), fig. 111/1923; Amy Conger, Edward Weston: The Form of the Nude, (New York: Phaidon, 2005), p. 39; David Travis, At the Edge of the Light: Thoughts on Photography & Photographers, on Talent & Genius, (Boston: David R. Godine, 2003), p. 98; Edward Weston: La Mirada de la Ruptura (México City: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1994), no. 10; Terence Pitts, Edward Weston: 1886-1958 (Cologne, 2004), p. 71; Edward Weston: Nudes (Aperture, 1977), p. 31; Edward Weston: Portraits (Aperture 140, Summer 1995), p. 45.
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