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'''Andrea Modica''' (born 1960) is an American [[photographer]] and [[professor]] of photography at [[Drexel University]].
==Early life and education==
Modica was born in
Modica has received numerous grants including a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Arts Fellowship]] in 1994 and a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright-Hays Research Grant]] in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrea Modica |url=http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013913/http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |archive-date=11 December 2008 |website=Catherine Edelman Gallery}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrea Modica: Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/andrea-modica-barbara-treadwell-1986-2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829080720/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/andrea-modica-barbara-treadwell-1986-2001 |archive-date=29 August 2020 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}}</ref> She is currently a professor of photography at [[Drexel University]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Gutierrez |first=Allyssa |date=4 February 2019 |title=Photographer Andrea Modica to speak, share expertise with students |url=http://www.dailynebraskan.com/culture/photographer-andrea-modica-to-speak-share-expertise-with-students/article_54076362-282b-11e9-a412-ef93b67fd56f.html |access-date=9 March 2019 |website=The Daily Nebraskan |language=en}}</ref>▼
==Work==
Modica's most known work is ''Treadwell''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andrea-modica|title=Andrea Modica|date=31 January 2018|website=International Center of Photography}}</ref> 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 and around the town of Treadwell, New York.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hulin |first=Rachael |date=11 June 2008 |title=Words and Pictures: Treadwell |url=https://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06/words-and-pictures-treadwell/ |website=PhotoShelter Blog}}</ref> Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |date=2004 |title=Andrea Modica - Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018004001/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all |archive-date=2014-10-18 |access-date=2014-05-09 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |
''As We Wait'' is a collection of previously unpublished portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and horses curated by [[Larry Fink]] in 2015 by Grafiche dell'Artiere , who also published January 1, portraits of Philadelphia Mummers in 2018.
▲Modica's most known work is Treadwell.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/andrea-modica|title=Andrea Modica|date=31 January 2018|website=International Center of Photography}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hulin |first=Rachael |date=11 June 2008 |title=Words and Pictures: Treadwell |url=https://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06/words-and-pictures-treadwell/ |website=PhotoShelter Blog}}</ref> Chronicle Books published the work in book form in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |date=2004 |title=Andrea Modica - Barbara, Treadwell, 1986-2001 |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018004001/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2004-03-04_andrea-modica/all |archive-date=2014-10-18 |access-date=2014-05-09 |website=Edwynn Houk Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Modica |first=Andrea |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/treadwell-photographs/oclc/32855514&referer=brief_results |title=Treadwell |last2=Proulx |first2=Annie |publisher=Chronicle Books |year=1996 |isbn=978-0-8118-1118-7 |location=San Francisco, CA |language=English |oclc=32855514}}</ref> She continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=Andrea Modica: From Treadwell to Fountain |url=https://www.edelmangallery.com/exhibitions-and-projects/exhibition-pages/2006/andrea-modica-from-treadwell-to-fountain.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Catherine Edelman Gallery |language=en}}</ref> The work from the later period of Barbara's life was published by [[Nazraeli Press]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Modica |first=Andrea |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/barbara/oclc/1099939416&referer=brief_results |title=Barbara |date=2004 |publisher=Nazraeli Press |isbn=978-1-59005-087-3 |location=Tucson, AZ |language=English |oclc=1099939416}}</ref>
Even before starting the series
For
▲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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014 |title=Andrea Modica |url=http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/andrea-modica/#1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214004711/http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/andrea-modica/#1 |archive-date=2017-02-14 |access-date=2017-02-13 |website=Blue Sky Gallery}}</ref>
For ''Minor League'', Modica
▲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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2008-01-15_andrea-modica/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2014-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310003845/http://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/2008-01-15_andrea-modica/ |archive-date=2015-03-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Theatrum Equorum / Andrea Modica |url=https://www.tisbooks.pub/products/theatrum-equorum |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=TIS books |language=en}}</ref>
▲This project combines first-person narratives by 37 Native American people with black and white photographic portraits of each person by Modica.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/real-indians-portraits-of-contemporary-native-americans-and-americas-tribal-colleges/oclc/53288865|title=Real Indians: portraits of contemporary Native Americans and America's tribal colleges|first1=Andrea|last1=Modica|first2=Sherman|last2=Alexie|first3=Rebecca|last3=Carroll|first4=Suzette|last4=Brewer|date=9 March 2019|publisher=Melcher Media|via=Open WorldCat}}</ref>
==Teaching==
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==Publications==
▲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.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/magazine/derek-jeter-a-yankee-before-the-pinstripes.html|title=Derek Jeter, a Yankee Before the Pinstripes|first=Text by Jon|last=Kelly|date=19 September 2014|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
* ''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.
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* ''As We Wait.'' Italy: Grafiche
* January 1, Italy: Grafiche dell&#39;Artiere, 2018. {{ISBN|9788887569568}}
* Lentini, Kris Graves Projects, Queens, NY, 2019
* 2020, TIS books, Brooklyn, NY, 2020. {{ISBN|9781943146260}}
* Theatrum Equorum, TIS books, Brooklyn, NY, 2022. ISBN 9781943146314
==Awards==
*1990: [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright-Hays Research Grant]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrea Modica |url=http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211013913/http://www.edelmangallery.com/modica-bio.htm |archive-date=11 December 2008 |website=Catherine Edelman Gallery}}</ref>{{Better source|date=July 2022}}
*1993: [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Arts Fellowship]] from the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]]<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/andrea-modica/|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation}}</ref>
*2010 [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Environmental Art Grant |url=https://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/new-page |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Anonymous Was A Woman |language=en-US}}</ref>
*2015: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=Knight Foundation Awards 2022 Arts + Tech Fellowship to Five Visionary Artists |url=https://knightfoundation.org/press/releases/knight-foundation-awards-2022-arts-tech-fellowship-to-five-visionary-artists/ |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=Knight Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Collections==
Modica's work is held in the following permanent collections:
*[[Museum of Modern Art]]: 1 print (as of 1 July 2022)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica - MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/36606|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}</ref>
*[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]: 12 prints (as of 1 July 2022)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?q=Andrea+Modica&sortBy=Relevance&pageSize=0|website=www.metmuseum.org|title=Search The Collection: 12 results for Andrea Modica}}</ref>
*[[Whitney Museum of American Art]]: 3 prints (as of 1 July 2022)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica|url=https://whitney.org/artists/4684|website=whitney.org}}</ref>
*[[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], Washington, D.C.: 5 prints (as of 1 July 2022)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Andrea Modica - Smithsonian American Art Museum|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/andrea-modica-3367|website=americanart.si.edu}}</ref>
*[[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]]: 4 prints (as of 1 July 2022)<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2022-07-01|title=Modica, Andrea|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/andrea-modica/|website=SFMOMA}}</ref>
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