We’re hosting Andrea Modica
@andreamodica.photo this FRIDAY at 7 pm to celebrate the release of her new book, Italian Story!
@lartiere 🎉🎉🎉
Learn more via the link in bio.
We’ll have a selection of Modica's titles available at the talk. Among them is her much-celebrated book, January 1
@lartiere , which captures a 125-year-old folk theater tradition in South Philadelphia. Every New Year's since 1901, men across the city have paraded the streets within organized “Mummer bridges.” The brigades are nothing ominous, as some might expect. They include the Fancies, the Comics, the Wenches, and the String Bands. Modica’s book specifically captures the all-male Wenches in all their glory as they "don female garb, including dresses, undergarments, purses, parasols, wigs, make-up and golden shoes."
Modica says of her experience photographing the parade: "Like 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.”
