The most famous and most important Italian photographer of every age, Modotti learned the first basics of photography in her uncle Pietro's studio. In 1913, however, she moved with his father to San Francisco, where she also began to play plays by D' Annunzio, Goldoni and Pirandello. She also undertook her Hollywood actress career, a job that she soon decided to give up in order to devote herself to photography. Although he was married to the painter Robo de l' Abrie Richey, she became a lover and model of Edward Weston, one of the most important photographers of those years. The peak of her career came in 1929, when an exhibition in the Mexican capital celebrated her as the greatest revolutionary photographer. The following year, however, she was expelled from Mexico and had to take refuge in Europe. In the old continent he worked as a Soviet agent, putting the camera to one side once and for all.
Her images portrays passions for something, something that perhaps is lost now and is not seen anymore, it makes the viewer.. it makes me think about what was and is no longer here.
