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Homage to Tina Modotti

For my Media Arts class we were told to choose a well known photographer that inspired us by the photography they took. The photographer I chose was Tina Modotti. I chose her because I liked that her work is very cultural like and it also keeps me interested and thinking.















Tina Modotti, like other photographers, began taking photographs in the 1900's. She inspired me by the way she would take photographs of The Mexican Culture and the way every photograph she took represented something or had a story behind it. I plan on paying homage to her by taking photographs of my culture which is The Mexican culture that she would take photographs of. I also plan on taking photographs of people and things that mean something to me or help describe me and my life just like she did.

I also plan on taking photographs of babies or infants with their mothers  because i've noticed that she uses children and women a lot. Maybe because being a mother is said to be the best thing something could ever happen to a women.

Tina Modotti

  Tina Modotti, born in a small town in Northern Italy on August 16, 1896 and died in 1942.  When she was 16 she immigrated to the United States to meet up with her father who was in San Francisco, California.  Tina Modotti was a very creative person. She experimented with acting and was in several plays as well as being an artist's model. Tina was introduced to photography when she was a young girl in Italy by her Uncle Pietro Modotti who had his own photography studio. She then went on a trip to Mexico in 1922 to bury her husband Robo, who had died from the small pox. And there she persuaded Weston, Her lover to teach her photography and move with her to Mexico. Tina wasn't a war photographer but she was an artist who's life revolved around politics.

      Tina then decided to start a new lifw in mexico with Weston and one of his children leaving behind westons wife and three other children. Soon she and her partner openend a portraiut studio in mexico and went around taking photographs for Anita Brenner's book Idols Behind Altars. Later it was debated on who had taken most of the pictures for the book. Later on it was determined that weston was more of a lanscape and mexican folk art photographer and Tina was more of a politacal photographer who took pictures of Diego Rivera murals and other muralist. Soon after they blew up together in popularity and they opened a portrait business in mexico with thier connection. Later on Tina's political connections got her another three lovers as she went on in her life

The American photography History

Back then around the 1900's photography was something very important for the people . There was many different types of cameras that were developed. The brownie was one of the cameras that was introduced to the people. The brownie was an expensive small box. ( like the one above). Before the Brownie, people would get there pictures took once or twice there whole lives.  Before the cameras they   pictures were painted by hand.

In the 19th Century the photos couldn't be reproduced on magazines or books. All of the pictures you'd see on books, magazines, or anything else was glued on individually. Over time photography became the democratic art. The pictures were used to attract attention the people. One great photographer of that time was Edward Curtis. The aim for many photographers including Edward Curtis was to make photography look like paintings.