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Title: [Tina Modotti?]
Creator: Seely, Walter Frederick, 1886-1959
Date Created and/or Issued: 192u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2016-2893.
From the David Stoddard Atwood collection, T&D collection.
Full-length portrait.
Kay Atwood;
Born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini in Udine, Friuli, Italy, in 1896. Emigrated to San Francisco in 1913 where acted on stage and film. Moved to Los Angeles where met Edward Weston becoming his favorite model. Moved to Mexico with Weston, creating photographic studio, became photographer, documenting Mexican mural movement, became active politically, joining the Communist Party.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Portraits.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : print ; 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001567895CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Modotti, Tina,, 1896-1942--Portraits
Actresses--California--Los Angeles
Photographers
Photographic prints
Portrait photographs
Place: California
Los Angeles

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