Margaret Hooks
 Mella's typewriter, 1929  Scaffolding, circa 1925  Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary First edition  Arches, 1924 |
Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer This definitive portrayal of Tina Modotti, brings to life the brilliant iconoclastic woman who throughout her life vacillated between the purity of inspired creativity and the struggle for social justice. A paperback reprint of Margaret Hooks' award-winning biography, Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary (now out of print). Incorporating extensive archival material and interviews with Modotti's contemporaries, this book magnificently portrays Tina Modotti, her contemporaries and her tempestuous times. Nominated by the Center for Creative Photography in 1993 for the ICP’S prestigious Infinity Award and awarded a runner-up prize for "excellence in writing on a photographer" in the Kraszna-Kraus Book Awards in 1995, this biography is now available in English, French, Spanish, Portugese, German, Korean and Turkish. The English-language edition has been reprinted twice -- as a trade paperback by HarperCollins in 1995 and again by Da Capo Press in 2000 under the title "Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer". Da Capo Press, New York, 2000, 277 pps, w/ ______________________________________________ Selected Reviews: "Tina Modotti's life had a great trajectory and Margaret Hooks traces that arc with grace ... This is a definitive biography." -- Robin Lippincott, New York Times Review of Books "Riveting stuff about the beautiful, old-fashioned, romantic idealist whose purity of intention ruled her life (and who got an extremely bad press for it), who suffered and starved, and may ultimately have died for her ideals." -- Lesley Cunliffe, VOGUE "The gaps and ellipses in Tina Modotti's story have now been filled out by Margaret Hooks's carefully researched and fascinating biography ... a vivid picture of a Bohemian milieu in Mexico City in the twenties." -- Laura Mulvey, The Guardian "A thorougly documented biography of a woman whose artistic reputation has in recent years enjoyed such an enthusiastic revival ... generously illustrated with excellent reproductions of Modotti's photographs as well as Weston's famous images of her." -- San Francisco Examiner "Femme fatale, remarkable photographer and revolutionary, Tina Modotti lived life to the full. Margaret Hooks's outstanding biography ... charts the making of this late great visionary photographer ... This richly illustrated book celebrates Modotti's will to live fully and unafraid." -- SHE Magazine |
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