Although Tina Modotti was born in Italy in 1896 on August 16 or 17, she spent the last 20 plus years of her young life (died at age 45) living in Mexico. She was an actress, model, activist and a fine arts photographer. She was closely associated with photographer Ed Weston, who helped develop her photographic talent, as well as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.
Modotti and Weston opened a photography studio in Mexico City, blending their individual tastes and talents, His being the landscape and folklore of Mexico, while she gravitated toward the people. She became a favored model as well as photographer for the mural movement. Her work became increasingly political with her liaisons with figures in the Communist party. She was eventually exiled from Mexico and traveled around Spain, Germany and Russia before returning to Mexico under an alias. She died at age 45 under what some believed suspicious circumstances, but eventually was ruled congestive heart failure.
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