BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 524 pgs / 460 duotone.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 8/31/2010 Active
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: SPRING 2010 p. 89
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9788492480753TRADE List Price: $50.00 CAD $72.95
AVAILABILITY In stock
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México City Museo Frida Kahlo, 12/01/09-06/01/10
The fullness with which Kahlo lived her life is seen best here, and her love for rich experience is reflected back at the reader... a great book, full of personality and vitality.
Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura González, Mauricio Ortíz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger.
The fullness with which Kahlo lived her life is seen best here, and her love for rich experience is reflected back at the reader, full of personality and vitality
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.
A trove of more than 6,000 photographs from Frida Kahlo's personal collection was recently unsealed at the artist's former home, Casa Azul, now a museum. A selection has been published in the stunning new book, Frida Kahlo: Her Photos. Featured image, from the book, captures Kahlo and friends Rufino Tamayo, Adalgisa Nery, Lourival Fontes and Olga Tamayo, out for the evening circa 1945.
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Colossal
Grace Ebert
This edition once again offers audiences the opportunity to better understand the bonds, preferences, and daily minutiae of two of the most important artists of the 20th century.
Colossal
Grace Ebert
This edition once again offers audiences the opportunity to better understand the bonds, preferences, and daily minutiae of two of the most important artists of the 20th century.
My Modern Met
Jessica Stewart
Frida Kahlo: Her Photos is an incredible way to get to know the famed Mexican painter in a holistic way.
My Modern Met
Jessica Stewart
Frida Kahlo: Her Photos is an incredible way to get to know the famed Mexican painter in a holistic way.
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Frida Kahlo's photographs are collected in this charming book. The paper jacket surrounds a beautiful royal purple cloth hardcover, making this a luxurious and special edition. Inside, literally thousands of the photographs that this unique artist collected are reproduced in high quality ink. The fullness with which Kahlo lived her life is seen best here, and her love for rich experience is reflected back at the reader. This is a great book, full of personality and vitality. It is one of the D.A.P. Staff picks for the 2010 Holiday Guide, and is recommended in particular as a gift for sisters and mothers.
Honestly, who wouldn't want to look through a beautiful hardcover book containing 401 of the best pictures from Frida Kahlo's private archive of more than 6,000 photographs? Naturally, we are delighted to have this staff favorite 524-page bombshell back in stock and still in high demand. From Kahlo's sometimes harrowing self-portraits to the many gorgeous and revealing portraits taken of her by artists, friends, lovers and family, to photographs of the important people in her life—including her father, mother, Diego Rivera, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Weston, Georgia O'Keeffe, André Breton, Isamu Noguchi, Dolores del Rio, Tina Modotti, Alfred Stieglitz, Gisele Freund and Leon Trotsky, to name a fraction, each of these photographs is a fascinating document. Bonus: many are inscribed, incised, or decorated with lipstick kisses. Featured here is a 1946 photograph of Kahlo in her New York hospital bed by sometimes-lover Nickolas Muray. continue to blog
This 1930 photograph of Frida Kahlo, pregnant, at Casa Azul—the family home she shared with Diego Rivera in Coyoacán, Mexico City—is reproduced from Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, a featured title at SHOPPE OBJECT 3.0. On the back, Kahlo has written, "Here's a picture of your girl in August 1930, and to you she dedicates this photo with buten [sic] of amore. Freon." Casa Azul provides the setting for many of the most dramatic and fascinating photographs in this collection. "Amidst an array of exotic animals—parrots, xoloescuintle dogs, monkeys and deer—the guests in the Casa Azul were part of the private entertainments (paintings, letters, diaries, drawings, and photographs) that would soon be transformed into a public show," Laura González Flores writes. "These photographs are fascinating not because of the objective information we can draw from them, but because the Casa Azul social drama is congealed in them in a kind of everlasting present." Some, however, "accidentally unveil that which the mask-image has striven to hide." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 524 pgs / 460 duotone. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $72.95 ISBN: 9788492480753 PUBLISHER: RM AVAILABLE: 8/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by RM. Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura González, Mauricio Ortíz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger.
The fullness with which Kahlo lived her life is seen best here, and her love for rich experience is reflected back at the reader, full of personality and vitality
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.
