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Tina Modotti was a photographer whose path parallels the great moments of 20th-century history. Her way of making art is a testimony to the world around her and her eye on it.

Emigration to the States

Modotti was born in 1896 in Italy to a working class family.

In the 1910s, at the age of 16, she emigrated to the United States as part of the big European emigration wave of this time.

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Once in California, she was noticed for her beauty and became an actress. It was the beginning of Hollywood.

The Birth of an Artist in Mexico

In the 1920s, she went to Mexico to supervise her husband’s exhibition.

On her way there, she learned about her husband’s sudden death caused by smallpox. Despite that, Modotti stayed and fell in love with the country and its social and cultural ferment. Indeed, 1920s Mexico just got out of a political revolution and had begun a cultural one.

While in Mexico, Tina Modotti lived with her lover, the photograp