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Tina Modotti, from an Udine textile mill to revolutionary Mexico

Posted on 2 September 2026 by Artevivo Magazine
Tina Modotti, from an Udine textile mill to revolutionary Mexico

Born in Udine in 1896, Modotti emigrated to San Francisco in 1913 and became Mexico’s photographer of workers’ hands and Communist Party imagery before her 1930 expulsion and 1942 death in Mexico City.

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