Modotti Seeing

Saturday, Sep. 16th. Visited the SF MOMA to view the Tina Modotti and Edward Weston exhibit. She photographs, among other things, telephone wires and telegraph wires stretched on poles. He photographs images of her self, studies in nude. She shows workers carrying hay and straw on their backs, concrete ladened on their spines, women with various items on their shoulders, heads, backs. She sees a small boy squatting in the dry heat, women laundering clothes on rocks, women kneeling outside a church. She sees roses, up close and wiltering, heady, subtle but aromatic. She sees...