"A first-generation modernist photographer, she created internationally renowned images of extraordinary formal clarity and profound soulfulness." In her lifetime, she was an actress, jazz age bohemian and Communist agent. Her friends included the photographer Edward Weston, painter Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Neruda, John Dos Passos, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Dorothea Lange, Sergei Eisenstein, and La Pasionaria.
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