1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1896–1942 · ITALY
Tina Modotti
Modernist photography that turned increasingly political.
- Born
- 1896
- Died
- 1942
- Country
- Italy
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1924Roses
- 1926Workers Parade
- 1926Idols Behind Altars
WHY THEY MATTER
Major photographer of 1920s Mexico; her one-woman retrospective at the National Library in 1929 was billed as the first revolutionary photographic exhibition in Mexico.
THE LIFE
Modotti was born in Udine, emigrated to San Francisco at sixteen and worked as a model and film actor before meeting Edward Weston. In 1922 she moved to Mexico, where she developed as a photographer and from 1924 to 1928 photographed Diego Rivera's murals. After joining the Mexican Communist Party in 1927 her work became more political, and her 1929 exhibition at the National Library was advertised as the first revolutionary photographic exhibition in Mexico. Exiled from Mexico in 1930, she stopped photographing after 1931 and later worked in Spain during the civil war.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1876–1964 · Germany · Photographer
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit), 1929Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia