TINA MODOTTI IS DEAD
Tina Modotti, sister, you do not sleep, no, you do not sleep.
Perhaps your heart hears the rose of yesterday
growing, the last rose of yesterday, the new rose.
Rest gently, sister.
The new rose is yours, the new earth is yours:
you have put on a new dress of deep seed
and your soft silence is filled with roots.
You shall not sleep in vain, sister.
Pure is your gentle name, pure is your fragile life.
Of bee, shadow, fire, snow, silence, foam,
of steel, line, pollen was built your tough,
your slender structure.
The jackal at the jewel of your sleeping body
still shows the white feather and the bloody soul
as if you, sister, could rise up,
smiling above the mud.
To my country I take you so that they will not touch you,
to my snow country so that your purity
will be far from the assassin, the jackal, the Judas:
there you will be at peace.
Do you hear a step, a step-filled step, something
huge from the great plain, from the Don, from the cold?
Do you hear the firm step of a soldier upon the snow?
Sister, they are your steps.
They will pass one day by your little tomb
before yesterday’s roses are withered,
the steps of tomorrow will pass by to see
where your silence is burning.
A world marches to the place where you were going, sister.
The songs of your mouth advance each day
in the mouths of the glorious people that you loved.
Your heart was brave.
In your country’s old kitchens, on the dusty roads,
something is said and passes on,
something returns to the flame of your golden people,
something awakes and sings.
They are your people, sister: those who today speak your name,
we who from everywhere, from the water and the land,
with your name leave unspoken and speak other names.
Because fire does not die.
Pablo Neruda – (Third Residence)
Today I’ll mention about very legendary woman. She is very important for photography art. And also Pablo Neruda has a poem about her. If you’ve read the poem, you are now also emotional and wondering about this woman. She influenced the whole world with her approach to photography. And of course she had a deep connection with politics. Besides, I have to say that she was friends with Frida Kahlo and Diego Riviera.
I will show you only some of her works today. I will talk about her relationships with art and some other parts. Tina was very famous with her beauty. And it drew attention with its strength. She entered the art world with own talent for the theater. She has a movies playing the leading role.
After meeting Edward Weston, she became very interested in photography. Edward’s favorite model was Tina. They made works that everyone talked about her beauty. Later than, Edward and Tina made a some deal. If Tina give a permission for nude photos, he’ll give lesson about how can be a good photographer.
She focused the people’s routine stuff generally. These photos with aesthetic concerns presented social events in a beautiful way. She followed social movements closely and loved to photograph them.
Throughout her life, faced many accusations with her ideas and actions. One of them was accused of murdering Julio Antonio Mella. Mella was assassinated right next to her. And he was Tina’s lover and a Cuban revolutionary.
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