LECTURE: Andrea Modica

Critically acclaimed contemporary photographer Andrea Modica uses an 8 x 10 camera to create images that are documentative and theatrical, wistful and tender.  Her book Treadwell, for which she spent ten years photographing a group of children in rural upstate New York, is her most widely recognized body of work. In addition to Treadwell her photography graces the pages of numerous other monographs including /Minor League, Human Being, Real Indians, /and/ Barbara/, whose namesake, a prominent personality in Treadwell, succumbed to juvenile diabetes, and whose last images are captured in this book.

In addition to her fine art work Modica has managed a very successful commercial career, which she will also discuss during her lecture. Her photographs have been included in publications such as American Photo, Harper's, Life Magazine, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and others. Her work is extensively exhibited and can be found in the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions such as the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant.