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Always, when the words art and artistic are applied to my photographic work, I am disagreeably affected. This is due, surely, to the bad use and abuse made of those terms. I consider myself a photographer, nothing more. If my photographs differ from that which is usually done in this field, it is precisely because I try to produce not art but honest photographs, without distortions or manipulations.

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I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)

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The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.

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I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.

Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti

Tina Modotti

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Born: August 16, 1896

Died: January 5, 1942 (aged 45)

Bio: Tina Modotti was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern.

Known for:

Woman of Tehuantepec (1930)
Hands Resting on Tool (1927)
Rene d'Harnoncourt Puppet (1929)
Two Women from Tehuantepec with jicalpextle (1000 AD)
[Tree with Dog] (1924)

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