Tina Modotti

painting and that he would be visiting her to see her progress. He finally came to see her new paintings and told her she had talent. What followed was an invitation from Diego Rivera for Frida to attend a party where she meets the photographer, Tina Modotti and David Alfaro Siqueiros, another mural painter who is also a communist. Diego Rivera introduces Frida to the politics of the Communist Party and she also becomes his

class (M. Elizabeth Boone, 2006). It depicts the California Labor School’s establishment; workers’ disenfranchisement from the service economy; movement of farm workers; and the demographics of the workers changing. The photographs depicted are of Tina Modotti, Otto Hagel, Dorothea Lange, and Emmanuel Joseph while paintings are of Hung Liu and Diego Rivera. The book consists of five chapters taking the audience through the journey of the working class during the great depression (M. Elizabeth Boone,