![]() ![]() In an informative biographical and critical essay based on exhaustive research, Sarah M. They have been selected to represent the full range of Modotti's esthetic imagination, and nearly half have rarely or never been reproduced before. 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. Modotti's photographic career spanned a brief but intense seven years (1923-30) when she lived in Mexico and became committed to revolutionary Communism. ![]() ![]() This is the first serious art-historical study of the photographic achievement of Tina Modotti (1896-1942). ![]()
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