Tina Modotti

Italian and American photographer

Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern.

She left Italy in 1913 and moved to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.

In San Francisco, Modotti worked as a model and, later, as a photographer.In 1922 she moved to Mexico, where she became an active member of the Mexican Communist Party.