Betrayal
Michael Wood, 6 January 1994
Tina Modotti: A Fragile Life
by Mildred Constantine.
Bloomsbury, 199 pp., £16.99, September 1993,0 7475 1622 7 Show More
by Mildred Constantine.
Bloomsbury, 199 pp., £16.99, September 1993,
Tina Modotti: Photographer and Revolutionary
by Margaret Hooks.
Pandora, 277 pp., £25, September 1993,9780044408796 Show More
by Margaret Hooks.
Pandora, 277 pp., £25, September 1993,
“... programmed happiness, maybe she couldn’t photograph happiness at all. A German critic, quoted in Mildred Constantine’s book, said that Modotti’s Mexican photographs show that ‘the sad eyes of a poor child might he more beautiful than those of a ballet-queen; that industrial landscapes, the means of production ... are more beautiful than the green ... ”
