When Kahlo died in 1954, Rivera turned the Blue House into a museum but had the rest of her things — clothes, letters, documents, and more than 6,000 photographs — locked in the bathrooms and sealed. They stayed shut for half a century. When the storerooms were finally opened, the photo archive turned out to be the find, and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio pulled 400-some images out of it for this book. There’s work by Weston, Modotti, Man Ray, Muray, and Lola Álvarez Bravo, and photographs by Frida’s father, who was a professional. But the good part is what she did to them. She wrote on the backs. She cut people out. She kissed one and left the lipstick.
Frida Kahlo: Her Photos