Día a día Google nos sorprende con la creación de Doodles que conmemoran algo; el de este miércoles 16 de agosto celebra a Tina Modotti, una fotógrafa italiana que hoy cumpliría 122 años, y cuya vida estuvo relacionada con el amor a nuestra cultura y los movimientos sociales.

Modotti, cuya tumba se encuentra en  el panteón Dolores de la Ciudad de México, fue una mujer inseparable de su cámara que aprendió fotografía gracias al estadounidense Edward Weston, a cambio de que le enseñara español.

Nacida en Údine, Italia, Tina fue una de las activistas sociales más importantes de su época, al revelar en sus imágenes la pobreza y el descontento de la población trabajadora; en sus encuadres transmitía el día a día de nuestro país e incluso, también retrató a personajes del arte y la cultura como Dolores del Río y  Frida Kahlo, a quien según la investigadora Margaret Hooks, llevó al Partido Comunista Mexicano, al cual se afilió en 1927.

Aunque su personalidad fue en gran medida reconocida por su participación en movimientos de activismo y lucha social, Modotti figura como una de las pioneras del Fotoperiodismo en México.

En su lápida se lee un verso de Pablo Neruda:

Modotti falleció en 1942 dentro de un taxi en la Ciudad de México, a  causa de un problema en el corazón, a los 46 años de edad.

#gregoryleroyphoto : Tina Modotti, Orozco painting, 1925. Vintage. #earlylatinamerica #tinamodotti #zonamacofoto #joseclementeorozco

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Tina Modotti, was born today in 1896 - 1942. Italian photographer, model, actress and activist. At the of 13 years old, Tina moved to San Francisco, California, to live with her father, who had a photo photography studio. By the 1920's she was living in Los Angeles and working as an actress, and appeared in several operas, plays, and silent movies. While in L.A, she met Edward Weston, who deeply influenced to develop as a photographer and documentarian. After some unfortunate events and the death of her father, Tina moved to Mexico City with Weston, who left his wife and three children behind. Once there, they opened a portrait studio and found a avant-gardist community that included Frida Kahlo, Guadalupe Marin, and Diego Rivera among others. Between 1924-928 Tina took hundreds of photographs of Diego Rivera's murals. In 1926, Tina and Weston were commissioned to travel around Mexico documenting its people and culture. That same year, Weston went back to his wife in California, while Tina became politically active. As a result, her photographs started to appear in political motivated publications. In 1929, Tina had a solo exhibition at the Mexican National Library, which was " The First Revolutionary Photographic Exhibition in Mexico". By 1930 Tina was exiled from Mexico due to her radical political activities. She lived in Germany, and then moved to Moscow, where she lived for several years until she moved to Spain to continue her political activism. In 1939 she moved back to Mexico under a pseudonym with her partner. At age of 45 years old, Tina died from a heart attack on her way home in a taxi from a dinner party at Pablo Neruda's home in Mexico City. - #5ArtistasMujeres #5womenartists #womeninthearts #womenartists #womeninart #artoftheday #artlover #illustration #portrait #photography #tinamodotti

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