Artist: Tina Modotti (1896-1942) synthesised the aesthetics of modernist photography with a Marxist belief in history. She lived in Stalin’s USSR, took part in the Spanish civil war, and was finally, some say, assassinated...
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...
A biographer uncovers new material on the Italian-born photographer, actress, revolutionary and spy.
By Sarah Coleman
In Edward...
