Tina modotti self portrait
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Images that (Do Not) Exist: Tina Modotti & Photographs from the Communist World
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Bertelli, Pino (2020), Tina Modotti: Sulla fotografia sovversiva. Dalla poetica della rivolta all’etica dell’utopia, Rimini: Interno4.
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Frida Kahlo & Tina Modotti (1983), dir. Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen.
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Mildred, Constantine (1983), Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life: An Illu • Her life story reads like a script tailor-made for a movie (are you listening, Hollywood?). After all, how often do we encounter narratives of struggling laborers turned Hollywood actors, then transforming into photographers and ultimately embracing full-fledged communist activism? Allow us to introduce Tina Modotti, a photographer turned revolutionary — a name to remember. Tina Modotti was born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini on the 17th August 1896. Her mother was a seamstress and her father was a machinist. The Modotti family struggled to make ends meet. When Tina was two, they moved to Austria looking for a better fate, but in 1905 they returned to Italy. Little Tina had to catch up at school and learn Italian from scratch. She was successful but before she turned 10, her father emigrated to San Francisco to support the ever-growing family with American dollars. But in the meantime, Tin • Tina Modotti, an Italian photographer, activist and actress, has left an indelible mark on the history of contemporary photography. Poor and forced to emigrate, Tina could have followed the career of an actress, and take advantage of her rare beauty for the easy obtaining of economic comforts but her choice of freedom leads her instead to the study and deepening of her innate artistic skills. Tina expressed her idea of freedom through photography and civil commitment especially in Mexico, a country that had welcomed her and of which she became an icon, but soon crossed the borders of the Americas, to be recognized on the world art scene. During her short lif
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Her famous shots, which make up the collections of the most important museums in the world, are the symbol of an emancipated and modern woman, whose photographic art is inextricably linked to her social commitment.