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Tina Modotti
Italian-born photographer and actress, active in the USA and Mexico
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| Born | Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini August 16/17, Udine, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | January 5, (aged 45) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nationality | Italian, |
| Known&#;for | Photography |
| Partner(s) | Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey (&#;, his death) Edward Weston (&#;) |
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, – January 5, ) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern.[1][2][3] She left her native Italy in and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.[4] In San Francisco, Modotti worked as a seamstress, model, and theater performer and, later, moved to Los Angeles where she worked in film. She later became a photographer and essayist
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A model, Hollywood actress of the silent screen, photographer and political activist, Tina Modotti, as she was called since her childhood, arrived in the United States in where she worked as a dressmaker. Her career as an actress began in in the San Francisco Italian community’s amateur theatre company. That same year she married the painter and poet Roubaix de l’Abrie Richey, called Robo. The couple moved to Los Angeles. In the early s she played in three Hollywood films and became the favourite model – and soon also the mistress – of the photographer Edward Weston, who had already achieved fame. On the death of her husband in early , disappointed by her career as an actress and encouraged bygd Weston, she decided to devote herself to photography. The couple left for Mexico where Weston taught her photography while she acted as his translator and managed his studio. However, Weston returned to the US in December while she remained to run the studio alone. She began to
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