Tina Modotti (1896-1942)

Aliases: Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti

Professions: Photographer

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  Tina Modotti (1896 - 1942)

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  TINA MODOTTI 1896-1942

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  TINA MODOTTI 1896-1942

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  Tina Modotti (1896 - 1942)

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Tina Modotti Biography

(b Udine, 16 Aug 1896; d Mexico City, 6 Jan 1942). Italian photographer, active in Mexico. She emigrated to the USA in 1918 and met Edward Weston in 1921, moving with him to Mexico City in 1923. There he taught her photography. Modotti’s early platinum prints were close-up photographs of still-lifes such as wine glasses, folds of fabric or flowers, as in Calla Lilies (c. 1927; see Constantine, p. 98). She also made prints of finely composed architectural spaces. By 1927, when she joined the Communist Party, she was starting to incorporate more overt social content in her work. She also gave up making expensive and time-consuming platinum prints in favour of silver gelatin prints.

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