Tina Modotti (1896-1942)/Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902-2002)

platinum print, printing notations by Manuel Álvarez Bravo and numbered in an unidentified hand in pencil and with Vittorio Vidali's Fifth regiment stamp and a typed title label on the reverse, matted, 1926, printed between 1976 and 1979 by Manuel Álvarez Bravo from TINA MODOTTI's negative (Lowe, pl. 76; A Fragile Life, p. 141; Tina Modotti 55, p. 61; Aperture, p. 24; Sozialarchiv, p. 87; Agostinis, pp. 122 and 237; Albers, unpaginated; Barckhausen-Canale, fig. 44; Hooks, p. 143)

This print, with a wide range of muted gray tones, is in generally excellent condition. In the print's margins, a few very faint fingerprints are visible.
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The photograph offered here comes originally from the collection of Vittorio Vidali (1900 - 1983), Tina Modotti's close friend and companion during the last 15 years of her life.  Entrusted with Modotti's negatives after her death, the Vidali family gave the photographer Manual Álvarez Bravo, who had known Modotti, an opportunity to print from some of these negatives in the 1970s.  Experimenting with varying papers and printing techniques, Bravo produced a small number of posthumous prints before the negatives were donated to the Museo del la Fotografia in Pachuca, Mexico, in 1979.