Artist: Tina Modotti (1896 - 1942)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Italian born, Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, immigrated with her family to the United States in 1906. She began working in a textile factory and then moved to San Francisco in 1913 to work as a seamstress and dressmaker. In 1917, she began a career as an actress and then got married and moved to Hollywood not long after. Around this time, she met photographer Edward Weston and had an affair with him. When her husband died in 1921 in Mexico, she traveled there and found the place that inspired her to begin photographing in 1923. She began as Weston’s assistant but later published her own images in magazines such as Mexican Folkways and Formas. Modotti joined the Communist party in 1927 and was deported from the country three years later. She moved to Moscow and worked for a relief organization. After returning to Mexico in 1939, she died not long after from heart failure.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (4)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Hands Resting on Tool
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Tina Modotti Title: Hand of the Puppeteer, Mexico City Date: 1926 Medium: gelatin silver
Museum of Fine Arts -
Tina Barney, American, Born in 1945 The Boys 1990 Chromogenic color print (Ektacolor) 121.9 x
Museum of Fine Arts -
Tina Barney, American, Born in 1945 Thanksgiving 1992 Chromogenic color print (Ektacolor) 126.4 x 158.8

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Throckmorton Fine Art: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston's Photographic Collaborations
Modotti studied photography with Weston, whose aesthetic, was based on the desire to give photography the status of high art through his formalist, “Form follows function,” techniques. Weston rejected documentary realism, while the content of Mod...
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity. ...
Bishop's University Art Gallery: Tina Modotti, Photographs 1924-1929
The apprentice quickly mastered the medium and developped a very personal style, both formally and technically. Weston's influence was undeniable and Mexican avant-garde artists also helped to shape her artistic vision. Modotti's ear...
Moderna Museet: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance shows Modotti's photography between 1923 and 1930 when she was working in Mexico. During the 1920s, together with her A...
Parrish Art Museum: Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Mexican Folk Masks from the Permanent Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York
Iturbide's work was influenced by two of the best-known earlier photographers of Mexico: Tina Modotti, recognized as one of the first socially concerned photographers, and Modotti's friend Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who began to photogr...
High Museum: Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection
The High Museum of Art is the only venue for these exhibitions. Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection features approximately 320 masterpieces by renowned photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, D...
Detriot Institute of Art: Where the Girls Are: Photographs by Women in the Permanent Collection
This exhibition examines the enduring presence of women throughout the history of photography with a survey from the museum’s photograph collection that ranges from the 19th century through the present day. ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Men of Mexico: Photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Hector Garcia, Edward Weston, Fritz Henle, and Gerardo Suter
Collectively displaying photographs by these artists demonstrates many parallels in their lives and work. During his stay in Mexico, e.g., Edward Weston began a new direction while maturing as an artist, and through the suggestion of Tina Modotti...
California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

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