Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti was an Italian photographer, actress and political activist. Her interest in photography started early on and it was her association with Edward Weston (as his model and partner) that she started experimenting with photography. Weston became a mentor and inspiration for Modotti’s development as a fine art photographer. The couple moved to Mexico in the early 20’s. Taken by Mexican culture and inspired by local folk art and landscape, Modotti soon found a community of cultural and political avant-gardists who she became closely associated with including Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Aligning with their artistic aesthetic, Modotti created photographs that mixed the romanticism with the radically charged political climate of latin America in the early 20th Century. She stopped making photographs by 1930 as she was dedicating her time to political causes, but left behind a small but significant canon of work.

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