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Galleria Carla Sozzani introduces eighteen vintage photographs of Tina Modotti, one of the most fascinating personalities of the entire history of the photography.
The life of Tina Modotti, beautiful and sweeping, is like a novel with an exciting plot that, explored from a lot of biographies, remains still dark in some gorges.
Art, sex, transgression, politics… a maze that often has compromised, with ambiguity, the objective estimation of an artist.
The very famous sober photographs with a political character are part by now of the collective imaginary as symbols of the eternal fight for the justice and the freedom. But her production has been very rich and recently rehabilitate from the oblivion.
In a short period of seven years – from 1923 to 1930 – she realized a patrimony of images ignored ‘till now: portraits, scenes of daily life and small events, architecture and landscapes, always resolved with the mastery of a very original composite equilibrium and with the grace disciplined of who uses the photographic instrument in order to tell minimal history of the humanity.
Few years of photography, with her fresh and free vision she records one of the most beautiful pages of the history. Her attitude in the comparisons of the truth is flexible, she picks up secret harmonies with symbolic valence and, at the same time, her light notations are pervaded from the intimate attention to the details, thought insignificant, of the existence.

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