- Editorial:
- LA FABRICA
- Año de edición:
- 2022
- Materia:
- Arte/arquitectura/diseño
- ISBN:
- 978-84-18934-32-2
- Páginas:
- 96
TINA MODOTTI. ESSENTIALS.
MODOTTI., TINA
The Italian photographer Tina Modotti is the main character of the first volume
of La Fábrica Essentials, the new collection of fundamental names in
photography that has just been launched by La Fábrica.
The book is a 68-image journey through the biography and work of one of the
great women photographers of the last century. With a brief career as a
photographer, Tina Modotti was capable of creating an aesthetic of great
forcefulness, becoming one of the main reporters of one of the most convulsive
periods in the history of Mexico, the country where she lived and died at the age
of 46.
Tina Modotti's photographic work is a reflection of her life, marked by
uprootedness and independence. Modotti knew how to see the beauty of the
imperfect and to reflect it in her work. She developed her entire photographic
work between 1923 and 1930, the years during which she lived in Mexico. Her
aesthetics had an impact on the Mexican photographic scene, just as the paintings
of Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros influenced her. Her photographic work is a
paradigm of the fusion between Mexican revolutionary culture and avant-garde
photographic aesthetics, to which she added the ideals of equality proposed by
socialism and her marked social commitment.
