Diego Rivera, La protesta, Corrido de la Revolución, Secretaría de Educación
Pública

Italian photographer Tina Modotti’s photographic practice focused on quintessential Mexican spaces. As part of the bohemian avant-garde of Mexico, Modotti intermingled with artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and similarly shared their political support of Communism. In this image, Modotti memorializes Diego Rivera’s activist third-floor murals of the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico City. The mural detail represents factory workers and a proletarian revolution aimed at countering the exploitation of the working class. Throughout his work, Rivera represents laborers wearing denim overalls and utilitarian factory workwear.