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Tina Modotti
"Knowing whether photography is or is not art matters little. What is important is to distinguish between good and bad photography.
By good photography we mean that type of photography that accepts all the limitations inherent in the photographic technique and makes the best use of the possibilities and characteristics that the medium offers.
By bad photography we mean what is done, one could say, with a kind of inferiority complex, without appreciating what photography offers in itself, but instead resorting to all sorts of imitations.
Photography, precisely because it can only be produced in the present and because it is based on what objectively exists in front of the camera, represents the most satisfying medium for objectively recording life in all its aspects, and it is from this that its value as a document derives.
If to this we add sensitivity and intelligence and, above all, a clear orientation on the role it should have in the field of historical development, I believe that the result is something that deserves a place in social production, to which we should all contribute."
Tina Modotti, sister, you do not sleep, no, you do not sleep:
perhaps your heart feels the rose growing
of yesterday, the last rose of yesterday, the new rose.
Rest sweetly, sister.
The new rose is yours, the new earth is yours;
you have put on a new garment of deep seed
and your gentle silence is filled with roots.
You will not sleep in vain, sister.
Pure is your sweet name, pure your fragile life:
of bee, shadow, fire, snow, silence, foam,
of steel, line, pollen, your iron,
your delicate structure was made.
The jackal on the jewel of your sleeping body
still extends the pen and his bloodied soul
as if you could still, sister, rise up
and smile above the mud.
In my homeland I carry you so that they do not touch you,
in my homeland of snow so that to your purity
the assassin does not come, nor the jackal, nor the sold one:
down there you will be at peace.
Don't you hear a step, a step full of steps, something
great from the steppe, from the Don, from the lands of cold?
Don't you hear a steady step of a soldier in the snow?
Sister, they are your steps.
One day they will come to your little grave
before the roses of yesterday are scattered,
those of once, tomorrow, will come to see,
there where your silence is burning.
A world marches toward the place where you were going, sister.
Every day the songs of your mouth advance
in the mouth of the glorious people you loved.
Brave was your heart.
In the old kitchens of your homeland, in the dusty streets,
something is murmured and passes,
something returns to the flame of your beloved people
something awakens and sings.
They are yours, sister, those who today pronounce your name,
those who from everywhere, from the water, from the earth,
with your name we hush and say other names.
Because the fire does not die.
Pablo Neruda
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