T ina Modotti (1896-1942), is this beautiful Italian with a dark look whose work, embodied, committed, humanist, has long lived in the shadow of that, so beautiful, so perfect and formalist, of the American Edward Weston (1886-1958).
She is this intrepid figure, who died of a heart attack at the age of 45 in Mexico, to be discovered in the Jeu de Paume retrospective, “Tina Modotti.
The eye of the revolution.
A vibrant retrospective like utopia, social like the brand new 20th century which intends to revolutionize the world, offbeat like the
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female gaze
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in the land of male photographers.
She looks at the people differently and especially at the Mexican women, these Madonnas and Child with long brown hands, with loads carried gracefully like headdresses, with the fierce beauty that Frida Kahlo immortalized in painting.
It is a story of photography forgotten after the 1940s, rediscovered since the 1970s, which surprises with its authenticity, its desire to get to the essential.
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