Frida Kahlo Photography Restoration Work Begins The Guardian
go to original August 13, 2013

Frida Kahlo, one of the most renowned Latin American artists, in a personal photograph at La Casa Azul museum in Mexico. (Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Archive)

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is renowned for her painting, especially her vivid self-portraits, but she was also a keen photographer and collector of photographs, like her husband, Diego Rivera.

The museum based at Kahlo's former house in Mexico City, La Casa Azul, or the Blue House, possesses around 6,500 images, many taken by Kahlo and Rivera, and capturing their bohemian life in the first half of the 20th century. Among those pictured are André Breton, the French writer, and Leon Trotsky. The vast collection, much of which is in need of repair, also covers works by celebrated photographers such as Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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