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Tina Modotti

1896 - 1942

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Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister. In San Francisco, Modotti worked as a seamstress, model, and theater performer and, later, moved to Los Angeles where she worked in film. She later became a photographer and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tina Modotti is the 6th most popular model (down from 4th in 2019), the 1,203rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Model.

Tina Modotti was a photographer who became famous for her photographs of Mexico and the Mexican Revolution.

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Among MODELS

Among models, Tina Modotti ranks 6 out of 313Before her are Phryne, Isabella Rossellini, Carla Bruni, Maye Musk, and Naomi Campbell. After her are Alice Prin, Twiggy, Kendall Jenner, Claudia Schiffer, Brigitte Nielsen, and Heidi Klum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Tina Modotti ranks 50Before her are Nikolay Semyonov, Paulino Alcántara, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Herbert Backe, and Helen of Greece and Denmark. After her are Friedrich Hund, Mamie Eisenhower, Ida Noddack, David Wechsler, Gottlob Berger, and Soghomon Tehlirian. Among people deceased in 1942, Tina Modotti ranks 37Before her are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, A. E. Waite, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Hector Guimard, Felix Hausdorff, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. After her are Leopold Berchtold, Felix Weingartner, Jan Kubiš, Tamon Yamaguchi, Louis Franchet d'Espèrey, and Annemarie Schwarzenbach.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tina Modotti ranks 1,203 out of 5,161Before her are Erasmo of Narni (1370), Giovanni Segantini (1858), Persius (34), Alessandro Valignano (1539), Rafael Bombelli (1526), and Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria (1777). After her are Tigellinus (10), Elisabetta Sirani (1638), Pietro Longhi (1701), Ciriaco de' Pizzicolli (1391), Domitia Longina (100), and Pietro Cavallini (1240).

Among MODELS In Italy

Among models born in Italy, Tina Modotti ranks 3Before her are Isabella Rossellini (1952), and Carla Bruni (1967). After her are Ira von Fürstenberg (1940), Lilli Carati (1956), Ilary Blasi (1981), Vanessa Hessler (1988), Bianca Balti (1984), and Mariacarla Boscono (1980).