La última rosa de ayer: social commitment and meaning generation in Tina Modotti’s photographic works

Abstract

This article intends to briefly analyze the connections between life and works of photographer and militant Tina Modotti; demonstrate that her political involvement in revolutionary Mexico of the 1920’s influenced her photographical production; and study the boundaries between social-political involvement and production of meaning in the-and through the – photographic image. To achieve that, an analysis is provided on some of her images produced in the period in which she both became acquainted with photography and narrowed her ties with Mexico’s Communist Party.