MPC 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Tina Modotti, Graflex, Straight Photography
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Mexico had recently finished a 10 year revolutionary process. So, it was a very attractive place for many intellectuals and artists from europe and the u. s. Here he continued to experiment with his "straight photography". For a few years, he lived here with his tina modotti. He did many nude studies of her. Ppt: nudes: tina en la azotea, and half-nude in kimono. Ppt: weston, portrait of tina, and tina at tacubay, Tina modotti was born in italy, but had grow up partly in the. She was an actress in hollywood for a time. She began a relationship with edward weston in los. She settled in mexico in 1922 with weston. Weston taught her how to use the camera, and she became a photographer herself. She began working in weston"s style abstract objects. Ppt: modotti"s graflex camera and flor de manita, c.