The powerful work and dramatic life of Italian-born photographer and Marxist revolutionary Tina Modotti (1896-1942). These superb illustrations--many rarely or never before published--include "Roses", which in 1991 commanded the highest price ever paid to date for a photograph at auction. 148 duotone photos.

Tina Modotti Photographs

Arts & Photography

Lowe, Sarah

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. The beautifully reproduced duotone images in this book include portraits, still lifes (among them, Modotti's memorable "revolutionary icons" incorporating an ear of dried corn, a bandolier, a sickle, and a guitar), Mexican workers, folk art, street photographs, architectural studies, and flowers and plants. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before. In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. Lowe, curator, art historian, author of a book about Frida Kahlo, and contributor to Abrams' The Diary of Frida Kahlo, explores the forces that shaped Modotti's early family influences in Italy; her formative experiences in the bohemian communities of San Francisco and Los Angeles in the 1910s; the relationship with legendary American photographer Edward Weston that provided her with her first photographic training; and the artistic and political circles she entered in Mexico. Lowe casts new light on Modotti's Mexican years, describing her relationships with a constellation of powerful artists, critics, activists, and journalists. Tina Modotti: Photographs is the catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition of Modotti's work, organized on the occasion of the centennial of her birth by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The Path to Restoration: Finding Hope in the Midst of Brokenness

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Independently published

Combining superb reproductions with insightful discussion about the relationship between the two photographers' work, Tina Modott &amp; Edward Weston : The Mexico Years presents a unique view of non-European Modernist photographic production. Documenting a key period in the lives of Modotti and Weston, it is essential reading for anyone interested in these two significant figures and in early twentieth-century Mexican culture and history.

Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: The Mexico Years

Merrell Publishers

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