EDWARD WESTON

Tina Reciting (1924)

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EDWARD WESTON
Weston, Edward
Tina Reciting (1924)
Gelatin silver print. 1924-30. Notation 28 and annotated Photograph was given to my father in law, Mr. Jorge Jean Crespo de la Serna, by Edward Weston, who was his friend. Doris W. Crespo. It was approx. 1930 and the portrait is that of Tina Modotti in pencil on the verso.
9 x 7in. (23.5 x 19cm.)

Literature

See: Conger, Edward Weston: Photographs, fig. 143;
Mora, Edward Weston: Forms of Passion, p. 90.

Lot Essay

In October 1924, Weston made a series of images of Tina reciting. He describes the session at length in his Daybooks.

Tina sat to me yesterday morning. We had long planned that I should do her as I have often seen her, quoting poetry - to attempt the registration of her remarkably mobile face in action. There was nothing forced in this attempt, she was soon in a mood which discounted me and my camera - or did she subconsciously feel my presence and respond to it? Within twenty minutes I had made three dozen Graflex negatives and caught her sensitive face with every subtle change. (Daybooks I, Mexico, p. 95.)

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