By Andrea Modica. American photographer. Image at Pine Plains, New York. 2019. Platinum print 8×10
By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor Blogfinger.net
Andrea Modica is a well known photographer. She joins my online list of female photographers.
Ms Modica was born in Brooklyn in 1960. She was educated at Yale, and now she is a Professor of Photography at Drexel University.
I like her work in black and white, especially when she does platinum printing.
This image is striking due to her use of light. I love the subject who gazes at the photographer in a provocative way. (Maybe that is my bias as a male looking at this model.)
It was printed as an 8×10 which is the size I have always preferred. It is a platinum print, a method that offers rich results.
I took a printing course with George Tice*, the New Jersey photographer who has helped bring back vintage platinum printing.
He demonstrated the gorgeous technique to my class, and it requires a great deal of expertise although I have stuck with silver gelatin papers.
If any of our Blogfinger readers want to see a Tice platinum print, please let me know. I have one. Just contact me at Blogfinger@verizon.net.
This image reminds me of my own work, although this photo is more contrasty than my style. However it is quite beautiful.
I receive mailings from the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California, and that is how I learned about this image by Andrea Modica.
*Here is a link to a post on Blogfinger which is about George Tice and the old houses in the Grove.
George Tice and OG architecture.
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