Join the SF Board of Supervisors, The Tina Modotti Heritage

Committee, and City Lights Bookstore in celebrating a new public

resolution honoring fine art photographer and famed revolutionary

Tina Modotti.  Appearances  by members of the board and local

artists, tba.

Tina Modotti began her career as an actress and model, posing for photographers, including Edward Weston. In 1923 Modotti moved with Weston to Mexico City, where she ran his photographic studio in exchange for lessons in photography. Her early work explored elements of nature and architectural detail. Later influenced by the great political and cultural fervour during the Mexican revolution, she used the camera as an instrument of inquiry and political communication. Modotti's works reveal a concern for aesthetics and composition. She photographed artists and people in daily life, as well as exploring the genre of still life. In Woman with Flag (1928), a woman with a banner over her right shoulder is isolated and set against the horizon, creating an iconic political image.