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Tina Modotti

ティナ・モドッティ　/　てぃな・もどってぃ

Photographer from Italy

August 17, 1896 – January 5, 1942　・　Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Friuli Venezia Giulia
photographer
activist
model

My Take

Modotti is one of those lives that feels almost too large for a single biography. Born in Udine in 1896, she crossed an ocean to become a photographer, model, actress and then a committed revolutionary, all before dying far too young at 45. What I admire is the refusal to stay in one lane. She used the camera as both an artistic and a political instrument, documenting beauty while trying to bend the world toward justice. That tension gives her images a charge you can still feel a century later. I find her courage, and her contradictions, genuinely moving.

Overview

Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian and American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tina Modotti
Name (Japanese): ティナ・モドッティ
Reading: てぃな・もどってぃ
Born: August 17, 1896 – January 5, 1942
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Leo / Monkey
Origin: Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: photographer / activist / model / actor / film actor

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%83%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3

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