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Tina Modotti. Tina Modotti’s photographs blend formal rigor with social awareness. The Italian-born artist immigrated to the United States when she was 16. She acted in plays and silent films, and worked as an artist’s model during her first years in the country.
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- Italian
- Childhood
- Early Training and Work
- Mature Period
- Late Period
- The Legacy of Tina Modotti
Tina Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, and given the nickname Assuntina, a diminutive of her mother's name, later shortened to Tina. She was the third of six children born to Giuseppe Modotti and Assunta Mondini, and the family lived in the Northeastern Italian town of Udine, at the base of the Austrian Alps. Although the hi...
Modotti stayed behind in Los Angeles, and Robo Richey left for Mexico in late 1921. With the promise of both a job and a studio, Richey planned to paint and to soak up the highly charged political atmosphere of 1920s Mexico City. His time in Mexico was tragically brief however, as he contracted small pox only a few months later and died in February...
Whilst Weston left Mexico in 1926 and returned to California, Modotti became increasingly emerged in Mexican life and politics. Initially joining the International Red Aid organization, Modotti had been active in radical politics for two years before she officially joined the Communist Party. Her photography also became more political in subject ma...
From Mexico, Modotti was put on a ship headed to the Netherlands. When she arrived in Rotterdam two months later, Italian officials were waiting to escort her back to fascist Italy. International Red Aid helped her to obtain a visa for Berlin, where she spent six months before moving on to Moscow to become a party worker. She struggled to assert he...
Her work was largely unknown until the 1990s, when a cache of her remarkable photographs was discovered in an Oregon farmhouse. Long overshadowed by her extraordinary life and her relationship with Edward Weston, she was viewed as his muse, rather than as a gifted photographer in her right. Despite a remarkably short career in photography - just se...
- Italian/Mexican
- August 16, 1896
- Udine, Italy
- January 1, 1942
May 2, 2024 · 1 Key Takeaways. 2 Early Life and Emigration. 2.1 Childhood. 2.2 Early Training and Work. 2.3 Mature Period. 2.4 Late Period and Death. 3 Photographic Career and Artistic Collaborations. 3.1 Relationship With Edward Weston. 3.2 Influence of Mexican Art and Culture. 3.3 Accomplishments. 4 Political Activism and Controversy.
Italian, 1896–1942. Discover and purchase Tina Modotti’s artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love.
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- Italian
Feb 21, 2024 · Modotti worked in a textile factory before joining her father in 1913 in San Francisco, where she worked as a seamstress and dressmaker. In 1917 she made her debut as an actress. She got married and moved to Hollywood the following year. While working as an actress, Modotti met Edward Weston and began a romance with him around 1921.
A woman who worked for social justice all her life. In this photograph she appears on December 3, 1929, at the opening of the exhibition -of the newly Autonomous- National University of Mexico....
