Andrea Modica

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Andrea Modica
Born1960 (1960)
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Known for Photography
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant
Website www.andreamodica.com

Andrea Modica (born 1960) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. She is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera. Modica is the author of many monographs, including Treadwell (1996) and Barbara (2002).

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Early life and education

Modica was born in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College (SUNY) at Purchase, Purchase, NY in 1982, and earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1985.[ citation needed ]

Work

Modica's most known work is Treadwell. [1] From 1986 to 2001, she staged and photographed a young girl named Barbara and her family in upstate New York with an 8x10 view camera, following the family from farmhouse to farmhouse in and around the town of Treadwell, New York. [2] Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996. [3] [4] She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes. [5] The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2004. Nazraeli Press also published Human Being, a series of 19th century human skulls that were unearthed at a mental hospital in Pueblo, Colorado.

As We Wait is a collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink in 2015 by Grafiche dell'Artiere , who also published January 1, portraits of Philadelphia Mummers in 2018.

Even before starting the series Best Friends, Modica had been photographing students at a high school in Connecticut, and she noticed that a friend was often present in the background of the photoshoots. She started photographing friends together in other high schools in Philadelphia and Modena, Italy. [6]

For Fountain, Modica documented the Baker Family in Fountain, Colorado for nine years. The family runs a small slaughterhouse. She photographed the inner workings of the farm and the intimate family moments. [7]

Real Indians combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica. [8]

For Minor League, Modica photographed in Oneonta, New York and the New York Yankees' spring-training camp in Florida for a project on young ballplayers in 1993. She photographed the young athletes' anxieties, focusing on the minor league players who were hoping to go up. [9]

Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022. [10]

Teaching

Modica taught photography at the State University of New York – Oneonta for thirteen years, and has also taught at Princeton University, Parsons School of Design, the State University of New York College at Purchase, and Colorado College. [11] She is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University. [12]

Publications

Awards

Collections

Modica's work is held in the following permanent collections:

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References

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  2. ↑ Hulin, Rachael (11 June 2008). "Words and Pictures: Treadwell". PhotoShelter Blog.
  3. ↑ "Andrea Modica - Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001". Edwynn Houk Gallery. 2004. Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  4. ↑ Modica, Andrea; Proulx, Annie (1996). Treadwell. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. ISBN   978-0-8118-1118-7. OCLC   32855514.
  5. ↑ "Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain". Catherine Edelman Gallery. 2006. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  6. ↑ "Andrea Modica". Blue Sky Gallery. 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-13.
  7. ↑ "Andrea Modica - Fountain". Edwynn Houk Gallery. 2008. Archived from the original on 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
  8. ↑ Modica, Andrea; Alexie, Sherman; Carroll, Rebecca; Brewer, Suzette (9 March 2019). Real Indians: portraits of contemporary Native Americans and America's tribal colleges. Melcher Media. OCLC   53288865 – via Open WorldCat.
  9. ↑ Kelly, Jon (19 September 2014). "Derek Jeter, a Yankee Before the Pinstripes". The New York Times.
  10. ↑ "Theatrum Equorum / Andrea Modica". TIS books. Retrieved 2023-05-23.
  11. ↑ "Andrea Modica: Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001". Edwynn Houk Gallery. Archived from the original on 29 August 2020.
  12. ↑ Gutierrez, Allyssa (4 February 2019). "Photographer Andrea Modica to speak, share expertise with students". The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
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