Rose Roland de Covarrubias, Mexico, 1926 Photo: Edward Weston Gelatin silver print Print used in the exhibition catalog & portfolio "TINA MODOTTI -Photographien & Dokumente" Berlin 1989 This print was produced in the context of the first German Modotti exhibition, organized by NGBK Berlin, 1989 and with the collaboration of the Museum of Photography of the National Photograph Library in Pachuca, Mexico. The catalog is titled :"Tina Modotti. Photographien & Dokumente." January 1, 1989. It is still available from a few antiquarian dealers. The exhibition has been on tour ever since always in updated format as recently shown at Museo Cerralbo, Madrid, PHotoESPAÑA 2022 and subsequent places. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrKmxgnf3pI&t=44s In 1923, Weston made the difficult decision to close his portrait photography studio in Tropico (now Glendale), California, and move to Mexico, as he wrote in his journal – to start life anew. He left behind his wife and three of his four young sons and traveled to Mexico City with his lover, Italian-born actress Tina Modotti (1896-1942) and his oldest son Chandler. Modotti ran Weston’s new studio, served as his translator and muse, and under his tutelage began to make highly accomplished photographs of her own. Together they became immersed in the vibrant community of artists and intellectuals centred there, which included painters Diego Rivera, Jean Charlot, Xavier Guerrero, and Rafael Salas, as well as the poet Luis Quintanilla, writer D.H. Lawrence, anthropologist Frances Toor, and journalist Carleton Beals. Although Weston and Modotti always remained outsiders looking in, the several exhibitions of their work during their Mexican sojourn helped spark a lively interest in modernist photography in their adopted country, where until this time photography had been admired mainly as a documentary tool, rather than a fine art.