'Tina'
Loretta Cappanera, Italy
This is dedicated to Tina Modotti, along with these lines by Pablo Neruda.

They are from a poem dedicated by Neruda to Tina; when Tina died in Mexico these lines were sculpted as the epitaph on her grave.

I chose this image with the poem in mind, because I think that her eye for photography, was, is and always will be, like love - in that she dedicated it to humanity - and love, like fire, never dies!

I would like to add these lines by Pablo Neruda:

En las viejas cocinas de tu patria, en las rutas
polvorientas, algo se dice y pasa,
algo vuelve a la llama de tu dorado pueblo,
algo despierta y canta.
...Porque el fuego no muere.
Pablo Neruda, Mexico 1942
cappazeta@virgilio.it
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