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Still, she admits she has "made a lot of really stupid decisions" in her movie career, and she clearly hopes Evita will put all that behind her. Two future movie projects have already caught her eye: a biography of Tina Modotti, the photographer and political revolutionary, and a movie version of the musical Chicago (in the role Bebe Neuwirth currently plays in the hit Broadway revival). "While I'm still very interested in making music and writing music, I want to concentrate on film more. I'm very interested in directing. I know that sounds very trite and boring...
...Weston could soon reconfigure the female nude to find the fracture lines of Braque or the seamless forms of Brancusi. But it took a personal and artistic crisis in 1923 to push him beyond ingenious deployments of volume and line. He took off for Mexico with his lover Tina Modotti and one of his sons. He spent the next three years rubbing shoulders with the muralist Diego Rivera, dodging the postrevolutionary turmoil and making pictures under the Mexican sun that specifies every object it falls upon. Among them were a series of vivid head shots, like his startling portrait...
...from their Camaldolese* monastery, high in the Apennines, where they live in solitary cells at least 20 feet apart, where recreation is a twice-weekly chat with their fellows, and a full meal comes meatless and only once a day. The 900-old order had selected Dom Augustine Modotti to found a new monastery somewhere in the U.S. (there are already more than 20 U.S. applications for membership), and he was off with his companion, Dom Aliprando Catani, to look over prospective sites in Nebraska, Arizona. New Mexico. Colorado and California...
...socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
Famous photographers whose works are on view include Eugene Atget, Anton Bruehl, Tina Modotti, Charles Sheeler, Edward Steichen, Ralph Steiner, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Edward Weston...
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