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  by Jerome D. Introduction Tina Modotti  (1896–1942) is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of photography — an Italian-born actress, model, political activist, and photographer whose brief but intense career in Mexico during the 1920s produced some of the most politically charged and formally inventive images of the early modernist era. Born  Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini  in Udine, Italy, she received little formal education before emigrating with her family to San Francisco in 1913, where she worked as a seamstress and then as a stage and film actress. Through her husband, the artist Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey (known as Robo), she moved in a circle of bohemian artists and socialists in Los Angeles. It was there, in 1921, that she met and fell in love with the American photographer  Edward Weston , who would become both her creative mentor and her artistic equal. After Robo's death from smallpox in Mexico City in 1923, Modotti and Westo...

  by Jerome D. Introduction Nick Brandt  (b. 1964, London) is one of the most distinctive and morally urgent photographers working today — a former music video director who walked away from a successful commercial career to spend two decades documenting the vanishing wildlife and landscapes of East Africa, and who has since turned his lens on the human communities most devastated by climate breakdown around the world. He studied painting and film at  Saint Martin's School of Art  in London before moving to California in 1992 to direct music videos. His commercial work was significant: he directed  Michael Jackson's "Earth Song"  and  "Stranger in Moscow" , Whitney Houston's  "I Will Always Love You" , Moby's  "Porcelain" , and videos for Jewel and XTC. It was while directing "Earth Song" in Tanzania in 1995 that his relationship with East Africa — and with its animals — began. By 2001, frustrated that film and commercial...

Everything you need to know — from the genre's legitimacy as fine art, to the world's best practitioners, the best apps, printing your work, building an audience, and selling prints. by Jerome D. Mobile Photography as a Recognized Genre For the first decade of the smartphone era, a debate raged in photography circles: could images made with a phone ever be considered serious art? That debate is now settled.  Mobile photography is a fully recognized genre , with its own competitions, publications, galleries, and dedicated practitioners whose work hangs in the world's finest institutions. The tipping point came gradually, then suddenly. In 2010, when the iPhone 4 introduced a genuinely capable sensor, photographers began documenting the world with a pocket device in ways that felt immediate, intimate, and visually compelling. Communities formed on Flickr and Instagram. Competitions like the  iPhone Photography Awards ( IPPAWARDS )  — founded in 2007, making it one of the ol...