Tina Modotti

Retrospective of Photographer Tina Modotti at Kunst Haus Wien Posted: 24 Mar 2011 10:00 PM PDT VIENNA.- The photographer Tina Modotti, who was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of the photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in the revolutionary movements of her time. The exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN offers an overview of significant areas of her photographic work, which has yet to receive the tribute it deserves: her portraits and studies of plants, her images of the revolutionary movement of the 1920s in Mexico, her marionette photographs, her famous series on the "Women of Tehuantepec", and a selection of little-known vintage prints of photographs that Modotti made of Diego Rivera’s murals. On view 1 July through 7 November.