![]() ![]() “This exhibition allows us to focus on a critical juncture in Weston’s career, and to present one of the strengths of The Lane Collection – its holdings of the photographer’s early modernist work.” “ Viva Mexico! highlights Weston’s pivotal years in this highly creative environment, which had a lasting impact on his work and inspired some of his earliest experiments in still life, landscape, and cloud studies,” said Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA. Viva Mexico! is on view May 30 through November 2 in the MFA’s Herb Ritts Gallery. ![]() ![]() Additionally, a compelling 1939 portrait of Frida Kahlo by Hungarian-born photographer Nickolas Muray has been lent from a local private collection. These photographs from the 1920s and ’30s are drawn from the Museum’s own collection, as well as The Lane Collection, which is on long-term loan to the MFA. Featured are approximately 45 works, among them about 30 rare photographs by Weston and selected images by Tina Modotti, Brett Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Paul Strand. During two extended trips to Mexico made between 19, American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958) created some of his earliest modernist photographs, which form the core of the exhibition, Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). They were inspired by Mexico‘s exotic tropical landscape, its ancient monuments and colonial architecture, the work of its modern muralists, and the country‘s indigenous arts and crafts. In the decades following the Revolution of 1910, foreign artists and intellectuals flocked to Mexico in order to experience its warm climate and lively cultural scene. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. Many thankx to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. What a privilege to be able to post these photographs that appear in the exhibition. Tags: american artist, american photographer, American photography in Mexico, American photography of Mexico, Anita Brenner, Anita Brenner Idols Behind Altars, artisans, avant-garde nudes, black and white photography, Boston, brett weston, Brett Weston Tin Roofs Mexico, Chayotes, Día de Fiesta, Desde la Azotea, documentary photography, documented realities, edward weston, Edward Weston and his Contemporaries, Edward Weston Chayotes, Edward Weston Desde la Azotea, Edward Weston Excusado, Edward Weston Galván Shooting, Edward Weston Mexican photographs, Edward Weston Palma Cuernavaca, Edward Weston Rose Roland, Edward Weston Ruinas de Mitla, Edward Weston San Pedro y San Pablo, Edward Weston Tina Modotti, Edward Weston Tina Modotti 1924, Edward Weston Tina On The Azotea, Edward Weston Tina on the Azotea with kimono, Edward Weston Toilet, Effigies of Judas, El Soñador, European Surrealists, exhibition, fine art photographer, Galván Shooting, Graflex camera, Hands Washing, heroic portrait heads, Idols Behind Altars, indigenous culture, Landscape near Saltillo Mexico, landscape photography, large format camera, Las lavanderas sobreentendidas, Laura Gilpin Temples in Yucatan, Manos de trabajador, Manos de trabajador Mexico, manuel alvarez bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo El Soñador, Manuel Alvarez Bravo The Dreamer, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Las lavanderas sobreentendidas, Manuel Álvarez Bravo The Washerwomen Implied, Manuel Hernández Galván, Mexican art, Mexican artist, Mexican people, Mexican photographer, Mexican photography, Mexico, Mexico City, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Palladium print, Palma Cuernavaca, paul strand, Paul Strand Día de Fiesta, Paul Strand Landscape near Saltillo Mexico, peasant labourers, people and the politics of Mexico, radical social activism, Rose Roland, Rose Roland de Covarrubias, Ruinas de Mitla, San Pedro y San Pablo, still life, street photography, studio photography, Temples in Yucatan, Temples in Yucatan: A Camera Chronicle of Chichén Itzá, The Dreamer, the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, The Washerwomen Implied, Tin Roofs Mexico, tina modotti, Tina Modotti Effigies of Judas, Tina Modotti Hands Washing, Tina Modotti Manos de trabajador, Tina Modotti Worker's Hands Mexico, Tina On The Azotea, Tina on the Azotea with kimono, transcendentalist, vernacular Mexican toys and folk objects, Viva Mexico!, Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and his Contemporaries, Weston and Modotti Idols Behind Altars, Weston early modernist work, Weston Mexico pictures, Worker's Hands, Worker's Hands MexicoĮxhibition dates: 30th May – 2nd November 2009 Categories: American, american photographers, beauty, black and white photography, book, documentary photography, exhibition, existence, gallery website, intimacy, landscape, light, memory, photographic series, photography, portrait, psychological, reality, space, street photography, surrealism, time and works on paper
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