Tina Modotti

✶August 17, 1896

†January 5, 1942

No one has lit a candle yet. Be the first.

About their life

Tina Modotti was an Italian and American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister. In San Francisco, Modotti worked as a seamstress, model, and theater performer and, later, moved to Los Angeles where she worked in film. She later became a photographer and essayist. In 1922 she moved to Mexico, where she became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party.

Italian photographer, activist and actress (1896–1942)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Tina Modotti on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.