| Names: | Other: Tina Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti
|
| | Dates: | 1896, 16 August - 1942, 6 January | | Born: | Italy, Udine | | Died: | Mexico, Mexico City | | Active: | Mexico | | Gender: | Female |
Italian politically active photographer who was most active in Mexico between 1923 and 1930. She was a companion of Edward Weston and moved in 1923 to Mexico City with him.Preparing biographies
General reading
Casanova, Rosa & Konzevik, Adriana, 2007, Mexico: A Photographic History: A Selective Catalogue of the Fototeca Nacional of the INAH, (Editorial RM) isbn-10: 9685208751 isbn-13: 978-9685208758 [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Albers, Patricia, 1999, Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti, (Clarkson Potter) isbn-10: 0609600699 [Δ]
Alberti, Rafael, 1978, Tina Modotti, (Milan: Electa Editrice) [Δ]
Argenteri, Letizia, 2003, Tina Modotti: Between Art & Revolution, (New Haven: Yale University Press) isbn-10: 0300098537 [Δ]
Cacucci, Pino, 1999, Tina Modotti: A Life, (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press) isbn-10: 0312200366 [Δ]
Constantine, Mildred, 1983, Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life, (New York: Rizzoli) [Δ]
Hooks, Margaret, 1993, Tina Modotti, Photographer and Revolutionary, (London: Harper Collins) isbn-10: 004440879X [Δ]
Hooks, Margaret, 1999, Tina Modotti, Master of Photography, (NY: Aperture) isbn-10: 0893818322 [Δ]
Hooks, Margaret, 2006, Tina Modotti, (London: Phaidon Press) isbn-10: 0714841560 [Δ]
Lowe, Sarah, 1995, Tina Modotti; Photographs, (NY: Harry Abrams, Inc.) isbn-10: 0810942801 [Δ]
Noble, Andrea, 2001, Tina Modotti: Image, Texture, Photography, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press) isbn-10: 0826322549 isbn-13: 978-0826322548 [Δ]
Stourdze, Sam (ed.), Patricia Albers, Karen Cordero Reiman, 2000, Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance, (Paris: Jean Michel Place Editions) isbn-10: 2858935572 [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com | |
Family history
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
alan@luminous-lint.com |
|
 | Tina Modotti: Portraits of Edward Weston |
|  | Tina Modotti: Woman of Tehuantepec |
|
All photographs by this photographer
Additional sources of information
Letizia Argentieri, Tina Modotti: fra arte e
rivoluzione, Milano, Angeli, 2005 [according to the
author, different from the American edition];
Christiane Barckhausen, Tina Modotti: Wahrheit und
Legende einer umstritten Frau, Berlin, Verlag Neues
Leben, 1989 [one of the better biographies in my
opinion];
Paolo Cossi, Tina Modotti, Pordenone, Biblioteca
dell’immagine, 2003 [a comic-strip biography];
Sarah M. Lowe, Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: the
Mexico years - Catalogue of the exhibition at the
Barbican Art Gallery, London, New York, Merrel, 2004;
Mariana Figarella, Edward Weston e Tina Modotti in
Messico, Pordenone, Cinemazero 2003 [a good study from
a very interesting publishing house];
Tina Modotti: Una vita nella storia, Atti del Convegno
internazionale di studi, Udine 2003, Tavagnacco, Arti
Grafiche friulane, 1995 [first relevant convention in
“her city”, sort of a discovery of Modotti for Italy];
Elisa Paltrinieri, Tina Modotti. Fotografa irregolare,
Milano, Selene 2004;
Vittorio Vidali, Tina Modotti. Ritratto di donna,
Tavagnacco, Arti Grafiche friulane, 2002 [a biography
by her very controversial last companion].
[Kindly contributed by Monica Di Barbora, June 2007]
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
[NOTE: This is a subscription service and you will need to pay an annual fee to access the content.] | Show on this site | Go to website |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.333
• Fernandez, Horacio (ed.) 2000 Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Aldeasa) p.176 [This Spanish exhibition catalogue is one of the best sources for illustrations of photomontage and book design for the period between the two World Wars.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Tina Modotti.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.194-195 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
|
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
|
