Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary - Softcover

Margaret Hooks

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044409257 ISBN 13: 9780044409250

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the Italian-born actress, model, and photographer, describes her relationship with Edward Weston, and recounts her involvement with social and political issues

About this title

From the Publisher:

Hailed by the New York Times as "a definitive biography," the stunning portrait of one of the most fascinating women photographers of our time.

About the Author:

MARGARET HOOKS is an Irish writer based in Spain who has written extensively on the life and work of artists and photographers among them Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington Edward Weston and Edward James. Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary was nominated for the prestigious Infinity Award and received a Krazna-Krausz prize for books on photographers and is available in eight languages. Her other books include Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon, Surreal Eden: Edward James & Las Pozas, Tina Modotti: 55 photographs and her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in ARTnews, BOMB magazine, Afterimage, Vogue, Aperture, The Guardian, The Observer Magazine, Cultural Survival, Gatopardo, Luna Cornea and other publications. Her latest book Surreal Lovers will be published in April 2017Hooks has written on the creative collaborations of Roberto Bolano & A.G. Porta, Salvador Dali & Edward James and Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Her published translations include the Roberto Bolano-A.G. Porta short story "Bar Diary" (2015) and the autobiography of the psychoanalyst and feminist Marie Langer: From Vienna to Managua.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0044409257
• ISBN 13: 9780044409250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320