Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti (1896-1942), was an Italian-Mexican photographer and actress. Modotti was also known as a communist activist, and once described her profession as “men”. As a young girl in Italy her uncle, Pietro Modotti, maintained a photography studio. Later in the U.S., her father briefly ran a similar studio in San Francisco. While in Los Angeles, she met the photographer Edward Weston and his creative partner Margrethe Mather. It was through her relationship with Weston that Modotti developed as an important fine art photographer and documentarian.