Frida Kahlo: Her Photos
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (670 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8492480750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 524 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
So many photos Seems like hundreds of pictures, almost all are interesting and historically meaningful. I felt like I got into Kahlo's basement, stumbled on a box of old photos, and made off with it. It seems more like a stack of family photos than professional shots until you get into it and find photos by Madotti, Weston, Man Ray and the like. And the photos themselves include eeverything from family snapshots, to Christmas cards, to formal pictures of statesmen. From pictures of Madotti and Weston to Trotsky, to Rivera and Kahlo (of course), to the unknown (including a murdered striker). Read a biography of Frida Kahlo . coffee shop in Mexico City so I was very happy to find the English version online since I purchased 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.. Five Stars Seward Ryan Attractive informative book!
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. This incredible trove remained hidden for more than half a century, until, just a few years ago, these storerooms and wardrobes were opened up. 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. 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.. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings and lett