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	<title>Tina Modotti Virtual Gallery</title>
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	<description>I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.</description>
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		<title>Men Reading El Machete, Tina Modotti (1924)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Modotti was born in Italy, migrated to California, worked as a theatre actor, flirted with Hollywood, travelled to Mexico, stayed, joined the Communist party, and shot brilliant, high-art propaganda/documentary images. She learned her powerful, composed style as apprentice to the American Edward Weston, a pioneer of photography as modern art.]]></description>
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		<title>Tina Modotti: A Life.(Review)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tina Modotti (1896-1942), Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times, was once known as "Edward Weston's mistress and model during his crucial Mexican period, [who] was also an accomplished, if minor, photographer in her own right." Today, however, she is probably better known than Weston, at least in the universities.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/tina-modotti-a-life-review.php</link>
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		<title>Tina Modotti, viewer and viewed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Devotees of communism evoke a grim picture of stern and ascetic men and women in sparsely furnished rooms, free of bourgeois luxuries. And then there is the glamorous Tina Modotti...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A biographer uncovers new material on the Italian-born photographer, actress, revolutionary and spy. By Sarah Coleman In Edward Weston&#8217;s photographs of the Italian beauty Tina Modotti, the subject assumes various identities. An early series, circa 1921, is all soft-focus, shadowy romanticism, emphasizing the model&#8217;s heavy eyelids and full mouth, with her slender fingers often reaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/shadows-fire-snow-the-life-of-tina-modotti.php</link>
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		<title>Diego Rivera and Tina Modotti: political allies and creative collaborators.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this portrait, made with black chalk on paper, Rivera quickly established the outlines of her head and face, then carefully drew Modotti's eyes, nose, and mouth. Her facial features are striking and Rivera draws our attention to them using a series of simple, sinuous lines that are more expressive than realistic.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/diego-rivera-and-tina-modotti-political-allies-and-creative-collaborators.php</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Modotti&#8217; review: Tina Modotti bio-play can&#8217;t build a fire with we kindling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tina Modotti was a photographer and activist who fought on behalf of Mexican peasants in the 1930s. She died in 1942 in Mexico City at age 45 under shadowy circumstances.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/modotti-article-rating-modotti-review-tina-modotti-bio-play-cant-build-a-fire-with-we-kindling.php</link>
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		<title>Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the decades following the Constitution of 1917, Mexico became a powerful magnet for foreign artists and intellectuals drawn to its ideal climate, dramatic landscapes, and inexpensive cost of living.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/viva-mexico-edward-weston-and-his-contemporaries.php</link>
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		<title>THE MEXICO YEARS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throckmorton Fine Art present Tina Modotti and Edward Weston&#8217;s photographic collaboration, from their important and productive Mexican years. For Weston, this period spans from 1923 till 1926, while Modotti stayed on until 1930, when she was forced into exile and left for Europe. The work in this exhibition will focus on Tina Modotti and Edwards [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.modotti.com/the-mexico-years.php</link>
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		<title>Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a few exhilarating years in the 1920s, two of the major figures in 20th-century photography, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, shared a passionate partnership with each other. They also shared an intense romance with photography and with Mexico, where they lived together from 1923 to 1926. At that time, Mexico was experiencing a period [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MOMA]]></description>
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