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. TINA Friuli and Austria (1896-1913) San Francisco (1913-1918) PART II. MADAME DE RICHEY Lompoc and Los Angeles (1918-1921) Los Angeles and Mexico City (1921-1922) Mexico City and Los Angeles (1922-1923) PART III. TINISIMA Mexico City (1923-1924) Mexico City (1925-1926) Mexico City (1927-1928) Mexico City (1928-1929) Mexico City (1929-1930) PART IV. MOOTT Berlin and Moscow (1930-1932) Moscow and Paris (1932-1935) PART V. |
Italian photographer and activist who lived in Mexico City. .Italian photographer and activist who lived in Mexico City. ..
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In 1913 Tina Modotti left her native Italy for San Francisco, becoming a star of the local Italian theatre before marrying the romantic poet-painter Roubaix de I'Abrie Richey. By 1920, she had embarked on a Hollywood film career and immersed herself in bohemian Los Angeles, beginning an intense relationship with the respected American photographer, Edward Weston. On a trip to Mexico in 1922 to bury her husband, she met the Mexican muralists and became enthralled with the burgeoning cultural renaissance there. Increasingly dissatisfied with the film world, she persuaded Weston to teach her photography and move with her to Mexico. Her Mexico City homes became renowned gathering places for artists, writers and radicals, where Diego Rivera courted Frida Kahlo. |
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Her beauty, acknowledged by all who knew her, must have given her access to Hollywood. Tina entered the world of Hollywood in 1920, exploited nothing more than physical attributes. Tina moved to Mexico in 1923, a year which saw a great resurgence. Rivera and Siqueiros were to lead the Mexican artistic revolution and both were to figure largely in the life of Tina Modotti. Speaking to the Mexican People , they declare solidarity in the effort to overthrow the old, inhuman system. |
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