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
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