Andrea Modica

Andrea Modica (born 1960) is an American photographer and professor of photography at Drexel University. Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera.

Andrea Modica
Born	1960 (1960) Brooklyn, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	Photography
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant
Website	www.andreamodica.com

Biography

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. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in many collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[1][2]

Modica has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Arts Fellowship in 1994 and a Fulbright-Hays Research Grant in 1990.[3] Modica has been published in Newsweek, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and other magazines, and she is the author of many monographs, including "Treadwell" (Chronicle Books, 1996) and "Barbara" (Nazraeli Press, 2002). 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.[4] She is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University.[5]

Work

Treadwell and Barbara

Modica's most known work is Treadwell.[6] 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 the town of Treadwell.[7] Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.[8] She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes. The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by Nazraeli Press in 2002.

As We Wait

As We Wait is collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by Larry Fink.[9]

L’amico del cuore

Best Friends

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.[10]

Fountain

For nine years, Modica documented the Baker Family in Fountain, Colorado. The family runs a small slaughterhouse. She photographs the inner workings of the farm and the intimate family moments.[11]

Real Indians

This project combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica.[12]

Human Being

Minor League

Modica visited 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.[13]

Monographs

• Minor League. Photographers at Work Series. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian. 1993. ISBN 156098290X.
• Treadwell. San Francisco: Chronicle. 1996. ISBN 0811811182. With an introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg and an essay by Annie Proulx.
• Human Being. Portland: Nazraeli. 2001. ISBN 1590050061. With a foreword by Modica and "Anthropological Descriptions" by J. Michael Hoffman.
• Andrea Modica: At The Edge Of Fiction. Light Work. 2001. ISBN 093544520X.
• Barbara. Portland: Nazraeli, 2002. ISBN 1590050878. With a foreword by Modica. 2002* Real Indians. New York: Melcher. 2003. ISBN 0971793514. With an introduction by Sherman Alexie.
• Fountain. Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour, 2008. With an afterword by Modica.
• L’Amico del Cuore. Portland: Nazraeli, 2014. ISBN 978-1-59005-405-5.
• As We Wait. Italy: Grafiche dell’Artiere. 2015. ISBN 978-8887569537. With an introduction by Larry Fink.

References

1. Gallery 339 Archived July 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
2. Maine Media Workshops Archived December 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
3. Edelman Gallery Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Andrea Modica: Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 - Exhibitions - Edwynn Houk Gallery". www.houkgallery.com.
5. Gutierrez, Allyssa. "Photographer Andrea Modica to speak, share expertise with students". The Daily Nebraskan. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
6. "Andrea Modica". International Center of Photography. 31 January 2018.
7. "Words and Pictures: Treadwell". PhotoShelter Blog. 11 June 2008.
8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-18. Retrieved 2014-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
9. "Isolation and Intimacy: Andrea Modica's "As We Wait"". 7 May 2015.
10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
11. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-10. Retrieved 2014-05-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
12. 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 – via Open WorldCat.
13. Kelly, Text by Jon (19 September 2014). "Derek Jeter, a Yankee Before the Pinstripes" – via NYTimes.com.

External links

• AndreaModica.com

Further reading

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1. Rosenblum, Naomi (2014). A history of women photographers. New York : Abbeville.
2. Modica, Andrea; Alexie, Sherman; Carroll, Rebecca; Brewer, Suzette (2003). Real Indians : portraits of contemporary Native Americans and America's tribal colleges. New York : Melcher Media.
3. Modica, Andrea; Fink, Larry (2015). Andrea Modica : as we wait. Bentivoglio : L'Artiere.