Tina Modotti: La Fábrica Essentials (Esenciales.) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 8418934328 ISBN 13: 9788418934322

Verlag: La Fábrica, 2022

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An affordable primer on the brief but influential career of an early 20th-century avant-garde photographer and revolutionary

Italian-born photographer, model, actor and political activist Tina Modotti is the subject of the first installment of La Fabrica’s Essentials, 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.
Tina Modotti (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 El Machete, 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.

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Tina Modotti (Italy, 1896 – Mexico, 1942). She was born in the Italian town of Udine into a modest family. She was an immigrant in the United States, actress, photographer, revolutionary, communist militant, political refugee and member of Socorro Rojo Internacional. She founded the Liga Antifascista de México and she collaborated with the Soviet embassy and the Communist Party of Mexico in the editing of its newspaper El Machete. From a very young age she took on the role of a free woman in opposition to the social imaginary of the time, and in the short time of her exciting life she sought beauty through photography, and she worked for social justice through political militancy.

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The Italian photographer Tina Modottiis the main character of the first volume of La FábricaEssentials, the new collection of fundamental names in photography that has just been launched by La Fábrica.

The book is a 68-image journey through the biography and work of one of the great women photographers of the last century. With a brief career as a photographer, Tina Modottiwas capable of creating an aesthetic of great forcefulness, becoming one of the main reporters of one of the most convulsive periods in the history of Mexico, the country where she lived and died at the age of 46.

Tina Modotti'sphotographic work is a reflection of her life, marked by uprootedness and independence. Modottiknew how to see the beauty of the imperfect and to reflect it in her work. She developed her entire photographic work between 1923 and 1930, the years during which she lived in Mexico. Her aesthetics had an impact on the Mexican photographic scene, just as the paintings of Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros influenced her. Her photographic work is a paradigm of the fusion between Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde photographic aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by socialismand her marked social commitment.

Tina Modotti(Italy, 1896 -Mexico, 1942). She was born in the Italian town of Udine into a modest family. She was an immigrant in the United States, actress, photographer, revolutionary, communist militant, political refugee and member of Socorro Rojo Internacional. She founded the Liga Antifascistade México and she collaborated with the Soviet embassy and the Communist Party of Mexico in the editing of its newspaper El Machete. From a very young age she took on the role of a free woman in opposition to the social imaginary of the time, and in the short time of her exciting life she sought beauty through photography, and she worked for social justice through political militancy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: La Fábrica
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8418934328
• ISBN 13: 9788418934322
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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