Mexican folkways tina modotti biography

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She later became a photographer and essayist. In she moved to Mexico , where she became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party. In , she met Roubaix "Robo" de l'Abrie Richey. In , Modotti began a romantic relationship with him and moved with him to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the motion picture industry. She was listed as a U.

She had minor parts in two other films. The couple entered into a bohemian circle of friends. Another was the photographer, Edward Weston. As a young girl in Italy her uncle, Pietro Modotti, maintained a photography studio. Later in the U. It was through her relationship with Weston that Modotti developed as an important fine art photographer and documentarian.