Andrea Modica is known for portrait photography and for her use of platinum printing, created using an 8"x10" large format camera.
10 Facts About Andrea Modica
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Andrea Modica earned her BFA in Visual Arts and Art History from State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase, NY in 1982, and earned her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1985.
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Andrea Modica continued to photograph Barbara until her death in 2001 from childhood diabetes.
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Andrea Modica started photographing friends together in other high schools in Philadelphia and Modena, Italy.
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For Fountain, Andrea Modica documented the Baker Family in Fountain, Colorado for nine years.
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Andrea Modica photographed the inner workings of the farm and the intimate family moments.
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For Minor League, Andrea Modica photographed in Oneonta, New York and the New York Yankees' spring-training camp in Florida for a project on young ballplayers in 1993.
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Andrea Modica photographed the young athletes' anxieties, focusing on the minor league players who were hoping to go up.
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Andrea Modica photographed and filmed horses in post-operative anesthetic states in Theatrum Equorum published by TIS books in 2022.
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Andrea Modica is currently a professor of photography at Drexel University.