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Edward Weston and Tina Modotti: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

At the core of the 58 lots presented in our New York Photographs sale called, "Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection," is a group of masterworks by Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Set to Mexico in the 1920s, which was a contentious time for both social struggles and technological progress, their love affair sparked a period of exceptional creative output. This relationship birthed an iconic collection of photographs in which Modernism converses with humanism, the two major photographic themes of the first half of the 20th century.

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