Minneapolis Institute of Art

Hands of the Puppeteer, Mexico City

Tina Modotti

Date

1929

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Tina Modotti dedicated most of her professional life to championing workers’ rights. As a politically engaged artist living in Mexico City between world wars, she associated with some of the defining figures of her era, including film director Sergei Eisenstein, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, and artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Her photograph of a puppeteer’s hands as they navigate the crossbar and strings is a visual metaphor—these are the entanglements and complex-ities facing working people under capitalism.

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