Frida Kahlo: Her Photos
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Frida Kahlo: Her Photos Details
When Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) died in 1954, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet Carlos Pellicer to turn her family home, the fabled Blue House, into a museum. Pellicer selected some paintings, drawings, photographs, books and ceramics, maintaining the space just as Kahlo and Rivera had arranged it to live and work in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings and letters, as well as over 6,000 photographs collected by Kahlo over the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms that had been converted into storerooms. This incredible trove remained hidden for more than half a century, until, just a few years ago, these storerooms and wardrobes were opened up. Kahlo's photograph collection was a major revelation among these finds, a testimony to the tastes and interests of the famous couple, not only through the images themselves but also through the telling annotations inscribed upon them. Frida Kahlo: Her Photos allows us to speculate about Kahlo's and Rivera's likes and dislikes, and to document their family origins; it supplies a thrilling and hugely significant addition to our knowledge of Kahlo's life and work.
Reviews
I first came across the Spanish volume of this book in a coffee shop in Mexico City so I was very happy to find the English version online since I purchased several copies as gifts. The photos are from her personal archive which hadn't seen the light of day in about a half century. Most of the photos were new to me and I enjoyed the insight it provided into her life. The essays were very informative, too. I highly recommend this book for the serious Kahlo fan.
