Platinum, 35 x 28 cm, 1924

Feeling he would be unable to expand his practice if he remained on the West Coast, Weston relocated to Mexico in 1923 with his lover, Tina Modotti. One of his favorite models, Modotti - who he met in 1919 - was a photographer in her own right, and documented the Mexican Renaissance in the 1920s. This photographic portrait of Tina was taken a year after the move to Mexico and was part of a series; in a single sitting, Weston took 36 negatives of Modotti reciting poetry of which this is the best known. They both considered it very successful. "We have been like a couple of happy excited children, Tina and I, over the results of our recent sitting" he wrote.

Contact printed from original negative by master platinum printer Tom Millea in 2001. Titled, negative information and signed by Tom Millea and Kim Weston.