When Frida Kahlo died, her husband Diego Rivera asked the poet
Carlos Pellicerto turn the Blue House into a museum that the people
of Mexico could visit to admire the work of the artist. Pellicer
selected those of Frida's paintings which were in the house, along
with drawings, photographs, books, and ceramics, maintaining the
spaces just as Frida and Diego had arranged them to live and work
in. The rest of the objects, clothing, documents, drawings, and
letters, as well as over 6,000 photographs collected by Frida in
the course of her life, were put away in bathrooms converted into
storerooms. This remarkable collection remained hidden for more
than half a century. A few years ago the storerooms, wardrobes, and
trunks that safeguarded it were opened. The collection of
photographs is a treasure that reveals the tastes and interests of
the famous couple, not only through the images themselves but also
through the annotations made on them. The collection allows us to
speculate about Frida's and Diego's likes and dislikes, and makes
it possible to document their family origins. Photography had
always been a part of Frida's life. Her father Guillermo Kahlo was
one of the great photographers of Mexico at the beginning of the
twentieth century, whose images of colonial architecture and
numerous self-portraits have been preserved. Frida's collection
constitutes a roll call of great photographers: Man Ray, Brassai,
Martin Munkacsi, Pierre Verger, George Hurrel, Tina Modotti, Edward
Weston, Manuel and Lola lvarez Bravo, Gisele Freund, and many
others, including Frida Kahlo herself. It is likely that many of
the photographs in the collection were taken by her, though we can
only be sure of the few that she decided to sign in 1929.
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