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Tina Modotti
The Photology gallery in Milan presents - for the first time in Italy - a selection of photographs by Tina Modotti. Of Italian origin, Tina Modotti, emigrated to America at the turn of the century, starting a career as an actress before moving to Mexico with her partner Edward Weston, a photographer.
Here, driven by her political and social fervour, she took an active part in the cultural revolution in course and became a privileged witness of it. The more than 20 vintage works presented in the gallery offer a direct and true image of those times. Portraits of young and old campesinos, fragments of Orozco’s murals, women and children carrying flags and political slogans, companions in the struggle.
Eighty years later, Modotti takes us back to the front line to experience Mexican events through works that represent the peak of her stylistic and formal exploration, now part of the history of photography. Completing the exhibition are portraits by Weston, testimony to his intense living and working relationship with the Italian photographer.
