#tina modotti
Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:48:00
Tina Modotti
Until her sudden – and some say mysterious – death at 45, the Italian-born artist lived an extraordinary life, morphing from silent-film actress to model, muse, photographer, Mexican revolutionary and (possibly) spy. Yet it wasn’t until the 1990s – when a cache of her photographs was discovered in a farmhouse in Oregon and several platinum prints, Rosesand Calla Lilies, were auctioned for hundreds of thousands of dollars in New York – that her own photographic legacy and incredible story would come to light. (more)
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Tina Modotti. Redondo Beach, California, 1923
Photo:Edward Weston
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Walter Frederick Seely (1886–1959), Tina Modotti and Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey, 1921
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Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, Mexico, 1923
Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:36:26
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