{"title":"Andrea Modica","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"catholic-girl","title":"Catholic Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing Garry Winogrand’s memorial service in March of that year, and a freak New York City snowstorm on that warm spring day, I took the RR subway into Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, to visit my high school teacher, the artist Len Bellinger. As usual, I had my 8X10 camera and holders in a backpack, tripod dangling off to the side. Being a diligent student, I took the opportunity to photograph at my alma mater, a largely Italian-American Catholic high school for girls. I was immediately struck with a rush of recognition and terror. I returned to make pictures many times during the following months, knowing intuitively there was something important for me to unpack. Only a few years earlier, within these walls, I had lived my life as a teenager, a time of intense joy and unfathomable grief. Without hesitation, that spring day I jumped off the cliff. I was in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book includes the Brooklyn work, as well as photographs made at that time in two New Haven Catholic girls’ schools. All of the work is produced with an 8X10 camera and printed in platinum, a practice I still employ. Evident is the influence of photographers whose work I was devouring, particularly August Sander and Diane Arbus. The seeds of my future projects are all in this book. With the Catholic girls I launched an obsessive lifelong work habit that I might not wish on anyone I care about. Looking back over these forty years, I don’t believe I had much choice. I remain most grateful to everyone who has supported me through the decades, including the incredible girls who generously offered their time to be photographed in 1984.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Modica","offers":[{"title":"Signed","offer_id":51354296418609,"sku":"","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/Modica_Andrew_CatholicGirls_01.jpg?v=1732057907"},{"product_id":"preorder-italian-story","title":"Italian Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The photographs in this book were made over the past four decades, primarily in Italy, entirely with an 8×10 view camera. I suspect I will continue this work for as long as I am taking pictures.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe title reflects the complexity of the Italian word storia, which holds meanings as diverse as history, story, situation, issue, fuss, hassle, tale, or lie. Depending on context, it may also refer to a love story, brief or ongoing. Italian Story is a broad narration: a record of events, a historical fiction.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAndrea Modica, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"729\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eItalian Story\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply personal and poetic journey through Italy, spanning over forty years of photographic work by American photographer Andrea Modica.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"731\" data-end=\"1129\"\u003eBorn into a third-generation Italian-American family, Modica began traveling to Italy as a young woman, gradually building a visual archive of the country’s landscapes, people, rituals, and moments of quiet intimacy. These photographs, taken across decades and regions, form a lyrical exploration of identity, memory, and belonging filtered through Modica’s singular, tactile photographic language.\u003c\/p\u003e\nThe graphic design is all conceived in black and white. The idea of this collection of volumes is not that of a diary but a literary autobiography where the past is re-written and re-invented, therefore somehow revealed.\" - Lorenzo Castore","brand":"Andrea Modica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53466077200689,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/35d9899e-3281-4db8-b030-a6d0b7d4caf2.jpg?v=1774984197"},{"product_id":"theatrum-equorom","title":"Theatrum Equorom","description":"\u003cp\u003e The result of more than eight years of intense work in Italy and elsewhere, \u003cem\u003eTheatrum Equorum\u003c\/em\u003e is acclaimed photographer Andrea Modica’s latest monograph with TIS books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAs the title indicates, Modica’s interest lies in the drama of the horse – but her approach is one that completely upends expectations for such an exploration. Using her trademark 8 in x 10 in large format camera, she made these photographs at a renowned horse clinic in Bologna that attracts remarkable and often very valuable animals for a range of medical procedures including, among other things, fracture repairs, emergency colic intervention and dental work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“When I was invited to witness an operation, I was immediately drawn to the contrast of these magnificent animals rendered so vulnerable,” Modica says. “I instantly wanted to investigate with my camera.” She began the project by making pictures of the horses in their post-operative recovery rooms: simple padded stalls with overhead windows that produce a lovely, soft light. To protect the animals as they emerge from anesthesia, the floors are carefully covered with the surgeon’s shredded junk mail, old medical journals, and art magazines. “The stalls are at once theatrical stages and humble boxes. In my photographs the horses are in an anesthetic sleep,” the artist notes. “There’s something sacred about the animals and the process of being able to go through this with them—a state of extreme vulnerability for an animal of that power.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhat followed was an obsessive visual study of the surgical tools, both before and after procedures, as well as a photographic examination of phantoms: curious “false” mares used for reproductive purposes. This part of the project took Modica to facilities in Italy as well as the United States, including visits to clinics in Maryland, Kentucky, and Florida. As such, \u003cem\u003eTheatrum Equorum\u003c\/em\u003e connects her previous work in Italy (published in such books as \u003cem\u003el’Amici del Cuore \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eReveal\u003c\/em\u003e) with her American works \u003cem\u003eJanuary 1\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAs We Wait\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuman Being\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFountain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTreadwell\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMinor League\u003c\/em\u003e, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Modica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885137977649,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/0667aef7-1d3c-404d-aa37-07632f857f79.jpg?v=1778104788"},{"product_id":"jan-1","title":"January 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e Each New Year’s Day in Philadelphia, merrymakers from across the city converge on South Philadelphia for something that at times resembles a well-choreographed parade of highly skilled performers, and at other times is more of a sprawling, shambling mob of happy, boozy, (primarily) men in costumes.  These are the Philadelphia Mummers. The event is an amalgamation of cultural traditions that has evolved in working-class neighborhoods for over 300 years. Beginning as small bands of informal revelers scattered throughout the city, today’s parade includes recognized performance divisions and organized clubs that compete within those divisions. The group represented by this collection of photographs are the Wenches, a subset of the Comic division, who hew most closely to the Mummers’ anarchic, free-wheeling past. The all-male Wenches don female garb, including dresses, undergarments, purses, parasols, wigs, make-up and golden shoes, in tribute to the iconic song of Mummery, Oh, Dem Golden SIippers. The Wench tradition, and often the dresses themselves, are passed down from one generation to the next, with some groups including all the male members of a family, from young boys to great grandfathers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike so many clubs and teams, this group embodies a male mystique, a paradox of inclusion and exclusion that fueled my attention beyond the aesthetics of the parade.  As a woman and a photographer, I joined the festivities as best I could. With an 8X10” view camera, I momentarily removed the Wenches from their reverie and photographed them, isolated, feet away from the party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll the photographs were made on January 1, 2009-2018 in South Philadelphia: a 10-day, 10-year project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrea Modica","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53885225533745,"sku":null,"price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/abee7c28-660b-48c3-b469-4ec7e997bffa.png?v=1776789444"}],"url":"https:\/\/phtsdr.store\/collections\/andrea-modica.oembed","provider":"phtsdrstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}