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Once More and Yet Again: Tina Modotti in Berlin, 1930

19th October 2021The Library of the Future, UncategorizedGeorge Grosz, Käthe Kollwit, Margaret Hooks, Tina Modotti, Vittorio VIdaliMinus Plato

Tina was still convinced that she would soon be leaving Mexico and was fairly sure about where she would be going. Germany seemed an attractive choice and the February 1930 issue of Deutsches Magazin von Mexiko published several of her photographs along with an interview given some time previously, which mentioned that ‘Tina Modotti desperately […]

After about ten minutes it began to rain, and though Dalie [Giroux] didn’t mind, the umbrella was not enough to protect the camera, so we moved inside to a couch in the living room where we sat and talked, off camera, for hours, about her work, her writing and about ourselves, our early lives separated […]