MODOTTI (Tina). - Lot 215

MODOTTI (Tina). Milan, Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, *I Grandi Fotografi* series. *Serie Argento*, circa 1983–1985. Large quarto, illustrated hardcover by the publisher. A volume in the renowned Italian collection *I Grandi Fotografi*, dedicated to the great masters of 20th-century photography. This monograph presents a wide selection of Tina Modotti’s (1896–1942) major works, ranging from her modernist compositions influenced by Edward Weston to her famous social and revolutionary photographs taken in Mexico in the 1920s. A photographer, communist activist, and key figure in the Mexican avant-garde, Tina Modotti developed a photographic language of remarkable formal purity in which tools of labor, hands, flags, vernacular architecture, and portraits all become symbols of political and aesthetic commitment. Her work, long overshadowed by her biography, is now recognized as one of the most important bodies of work in modern photography. Richly illustrated with heliogravures, this volume provides an excellent iconographic and documentary overview of her work. Condition: very good copy.