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

Authors

  • Beatriz Rodrigues Ferreira Universidade Federal de Pelotas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2008v4n4p59

Keywords:

Photography, Social commitment photography, Tina Modotti, México.

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.

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Author Biography

Beatriz Rodrigues Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pelotas

 

Published

2008-12-15

How to Cite

Ferreira, B. R. (2008). La última rosa de ayer: social commitment and meaning generation in Tina Modotti’s photographic works. Discursos Fotograficos, 4(4), 59–80. https://doi.org/10.5433/1984-7939.2008v4n4p59

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