Tina Modotti: Difference between revisions

Modotti was born '''Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini''' in [[Udine]], [[Friuli]], Italy.<ref name=Getty>[[J. Paul Getty Museum]]. [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1830 Tina Modotti.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010171350/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1830 |date=2008-10-10 }} Retrieved September 12, 2008.</ref> Her mother, Assunta, was a seamstress and her father, Giuseppe, was a mason.<ref name="Saunders">Saunders, Anna. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/10104447/Tina-Modotti-An-amazing-life-in-photography.html "Tina Modotti: An amazing life in photography"], ''The Telegraph'', Retrieved August 23, 2013.</ref> In 1913, at the age of 16, she immigrated to the [[United States]] to join her father in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name=Getty/>

In 1996 the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] organized a large scale retrospective dedicated to the artist, entitled ''Tina Modotti: Photographs''.<ref>[http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/1995/484.html "Tina Modotti: Photographs"], Philadelphia Museum of Art, Retrieved 23 August 2015.</ref> Martha Chahroudi, the museum's curator of photography, organized the exhibit. In order to raise funds for the show, the singer [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] auctioned off her 1963 Mercedes-Benz. Madonna has become a major collector of Modotti's work. In 2006, the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]] organized an exhibition entitled ''Mexico as Muse: Tina Modotti and Edward Weston''.<ref>[http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/30# "Mexico as Muse"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905134154/http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/interactive_features/30 |date=2015-09-05 }}, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Retrieved 23 August 2015.</ref>

Prior to the presentation of her work in the U.S., Modotti's photographs have been shown in Italy, Poland, Germany, Austria, and other countries. In 2010, the largest exhibition of her work, ''Tina Modotti Photographer and Revolutionary'' opened at the [[KunstHausWien]] in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref>[https://www.kunsthauswien.com/en/exhibitions/archive/24-ausstellungs-archiv-2010/40-tina-modotti "Tina Modotti. Photographer and Revolutionary"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061516/https://www.kunsthauswien.com/en/exhibitions/archive/24-ausstellungs-archiv-2010/40-tina-modotti |date=2016-03-04 }}, Kunst Haus Wien, Retrieved 23 August 2015.</ref> It presented 250 photographs, many never shown before. The exhibition is based on the collections of Galerie Bilderwelt, Berlin and Spencer Throckmorton, NYC and curated by Reinhard Schultz. In 2015 the exhibition ''Tina Modotti: Photographs of Mexican Murals'' was organized at the Richard Norton Gallery.<ref name=Norton/>

* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20060628055725/http://eastman.org/ar/strip87/htmlsrc3/modotti_sld00001.html George Eastman House]