{"title":"Tina Modotti","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"tina-modotti-book-tina-modotti-9788418934322","title":"Tina Modotti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn affordable primer on the brief but influential career of an early 20th-century avant-garde photographer and revolutionary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItalian-born photographer, model, actor and political activist Tina Modotti is the subject of the first installment of La Fabrica's \u003ci\u003eEssentials\u003c\/i\u003e, a new series of monographs dedicated to the most fundamental names in photography. Modotti's highly influential career in photography took place entirely during her years living in Mexico, from 1923 to 1930, during which time she was deeply entrenched in Mexico City's avant-garde scene and produced a total of just over 400 black-and-white photographs. Before developing her own practice, Modotti was Edward Weston's favorite model, then lover, darkroom assistant and ultimately, creative partner. She was also close with iconic artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, for whom she photographed many public murals. Her oeuvre, spanning portraiture to photojournalism, fuses the aesthetics of Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde photography aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by socialism and her keen political commitment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTina Modotti\u003c\/b\u003e (1896-1942) was born in Udine, Italy and immigrated with her family at the age of 16 to California, where she worked as an artists' model and an actress. In 1922 she moved to Mexico City where she became heavily involved with the communist party, working for the newspaper \u003ci\u003eEl Machete\u003c\/i\u003e, and later founding the Liga Antifascista de México. In 1930 she was exiled and lived as a political refugee throughout Europe and in Moscow before returning to Mexico under a pseudonym in 1939, where she remained until her early death in 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51063671619857,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51063674601745,"sku":"NIN9788418934322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52659267436817,"sku":"NLS9788418934322","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8418934328.jpg?v=1751384276"},{"product_id":"tina-modotti-photographer-and-revolutionary-by-margaret-hooks-book-tina-modotti-9788416248834","title":"Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary by Margaret Hooks","description":"The life and work of Italian-born photographer Tina Modotti is magnificently portrayed in this generously illustrated volume by expert Margaret Hooks. It is a detailed study of an extraordinary life, from her early years in Italy to her time as a Hollywood actress, her first steps as a photographer with Edward Weston, her stay in Mexico with Diego Rivera and her twenty years as an active communist in Mexico, Spain and Moscow, during which she risked her life to carry funds to political prisoners in Romania and endured deadly bombings in Madrid and Barcelona. 'Modotti's famous portraits of celebrities and common people, her journalistic photography depicting poverty and political turmoil and her abstract compositions of flowers and objects are all included in this superb book. Tina Modotti (Italy, 1896 - Mexico, 1942), although often overshadowed by her lovers Edward Weston and Diego Rivera, is undoubtedly one of the most important women photographers of the twentieth century. She is considered a pioneer of critical photojournalism in Mexico as her work reflected her commitment to the underprivileged and their social struggle. Some of her photographs have reached record-setting prices in auctions Illustrated throughout","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51064149311761,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51064151867665,"sku":"NIN9788416248834","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52141741179153,"sku":"NLS9788416248834","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8416248834.jpg?v=1751351699"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-tina-modotti.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}