TINA MODOTTI - Convent of Tepotzotlán, Mexico

Convent of Tepotzotlán, Mexico - TINA MODOTTI
Fineart Print used in the exhibition "TINA MODOTTI -Photographien & Dokumente" originating Berlin 1989, the first exhibition of Modottis work in Germany.
It was organized in cooperation with Fototeca del Inah, Pachuca, Mexico, the repository of the surviving Modotti negatives transferred from Trieste to Mexico in the 1970s by Carlos Vidali, son of Vittorio Vidali, the last companion of Tina Modotti
The exhibition is still travelling in ever changing composition, mostly titled “Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary”.
The title was first used for a book by Margaret Hooks in 1993.

Here are videos of some presentations as shown
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=buenos+aires+modotti
Buenos Aires 2012

St. Petersburg 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDay14pQLdY

Parma 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwxiaP_s494

Trani 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XfwSRhlUd8

Freiburg – Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy7HqHBRkJY

Madrid 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrKmxgnf3pI

Alltogether the exhibition has been shown in more than 80 locations
and can be labelled the most successful exhibition on the work of Modotti
so far.
15 catalogs & books are available in German, English, Italian, Spanish & Russian.
See also: https://www.bilderwelt-exhibitions.com/



Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, actor, model, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister. Modotti worked as a seamstress, and theater performer and, later, moved to Los Angeles where she acted in 3 films. She later became a photographer and essayist. In 1923 she moved to Mexico with her lover and menor Edward Weston, and later became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party.

She lived in Mexico City with Weston and his son Chandler, leaving behind Weston's wife Flora and their youngest three children. She agreed to run Weston's studio free of charge in return for his mentoring her in photography.
Together they opened a portrait studio and quickly gravitated toward the capital's bohemian scene and used their connections to create an expanding portrait business.

For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Modotti