Margaret Hooks

Xavier Guerrero & Francisca Moreno, c1927
Mexican painter & revolutionary Xavier Guerrero was instrumental in Modotti's transition from the modernism of Edward Weston to what became the leitmotif of her work -- the melding of form and content.

Lola Cueto, 1927. Mexican painter and designer Lola Cueto was a close friend of Tina Modotti. Cueto was a prominent member of a group of bohemian artists that included Modotti and Edward Weston. The group met weekly for lively discussions on art and revolution.

Antonieta Rivas Mercado, 1929. Mexican writer, activist and arts patron Antonieta Rivas Mercado was a leading member of an avant garde group of artists and writers. She is the subject of the film "Antonieta," by Spanish director Carlos Saura.

Tina Modotti:
Masters of Photography

The finest of Tina Modotti's images, including some previously unpublished portraits of fellow artists and friends in Mexico, are presented in Tina Modotti. This volume is part of the Aperture Masters of Photography Series devoted to photographers whose achievements have accorded them vital importance in the history of the medium. Published to Aperture's standard of excellence the series provides a comprehensive library of the artists who have shaped the medium.

Aperture, New York, 1999, 94 pps, ill., chron., biblio., hardback. ISBN 0-89381-823-2

Surreal Eden
Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2006.

Manel Armengol
Turner, Madrid 2007; A-R Press, D.A.P., New York 2008.

Tina Modotti
Phaidon Press Ltd, London, 2005; 2006.

Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon
Turner, Madrid; Bloomsbury, London; D.A.P., New York, 2003; 2006

Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer
Da Capo Press, New York, 2000; Harper Collins, London, 1993.

Tina Modotti: Masters of Photography
Aperture, New York, 1999.

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