VIENNA.- The photographer Tina Modotti, who was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of the photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in the revolutionary...
Pino Cacucci, Tina Modotti: A Life. Translated by Patricia J. Duncan. St. Martin’s Press, 224 pages, 24.95
Tina Modotti (1896-1942),...
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, an Italian photographer and political revolutionary. An exhibition...
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...
