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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002) - Optical Parable, 1931 [***]

philip tsiaras - mexico [***]

Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Mexico, Angel of the Quake, 1957 [***]

Flor Garduno, Pinanona, Mexico, 2000 [kvetchlandia]

Flor Garduño, Con Corona, México, 2000 [***]

Flor Garduño “Canasta de Luz”, Sumpango, Guatemala, 1989 [***]

juan rulfo [***]

juan rulfo [***]

Edward Weston - Tina Modotti lying on the Azotea, Redondo Beach, CA, USA (1923) / Some sources locate this photoshoot in Mexico. [***]

Diego Rivera / Distributing Arms [en el arsenal]. 1928. / Fresco
Court of Labor, Ministry of Education, Mexico City. [***]

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Julio Antonio Mella, Tina Modotti, and […] Vittorio Vidali (in a black beret, just visible behind Modotti’s head) // [wkipedia: The love triangle of Mella, Vidale [Vidali] and Modotti is immortalized in Diego Rivera’s mural “In the Arsenal.”. The extreme right [as you face it] of the mural shows […] Tina Modotti holding a belt of ammunition. Vidale’s face, partly hidden, stares suspiciously from under a black hat, as he peers over her shoulder, while Modotti gazes lovingly at Julio Antonio Mella […] Given the closeness of Diego Rivera to the people involved some consider this fresco painting to be evidence of Vidale’s and Rivera’s involvement in Mella’s assassination and this work of art is believed by many to relate to Rivera’s expulsion from the Mexican Communist Party.]

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Frida Kahlo

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David Alfaro Siqueiros

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Tina Modotti re-enacting the assassination of Julio Mella / Casasola Archives [the salt mine]

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wikipedia: Julio Antonio Mella (25 March 1903 – 10 January 1929) was a founder of the “internationalized” Cuban Communist Party [formally recognized by Moscow in 1925]. […]

Mella was assassinated [shot from point-blank range] on January 10, 1929, while walking home late at night with photographer Tina Modotti. The Mexican government tried to implicate Modotti in the murder […]. It is unclear whether Mella was murdered by the dictatorial Cuban government, if his death was brought about by Trotsky-Stalin Communist Party feuding, or by a combination of these […]. It is […] speculated that he died by the notoriously bloody hand of Vittorio Vidali. […] At the time of his death he was […] trying to organize the overthrow of the Cuban government of General Gerardo Machado. This cause was an embarrassment to the Cuban Communist Party which was trying to gain power by establishing a modus vivendi with Machado.

[wikipedia: Vittorio Vidali (1900 — 1983, also known as Vittorio Vidale, Enea Sormenti, Jacobo Hurwitz Zender, Carlos Contreras, “Comandante Carlos”) was an Italian-born Stalinist. […] Vidali was sent by the Comintern to Mexico to discipline the Mexican Communist Party. His time there brought Vidali’s romantic involvement with communist photographer Tina Modotti […] Vidali was definitely involved in the May 24, 1940 failed frontal assault on Trotsky’s residence in Mexico City, along with Grigulevich and Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros. Vidali is thought to have been involved with the insertion of assassin Ramón Mercader into Trotsky’s inner circle - Mercader was to kill Trotsky later that year. […] [After 1954] Vidali served as a member of Italian Parliament.]