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Presentation

Carlos Phillips

The Diego Rivera-Anahuacalli and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust Fund, as well as its Technical Committee, are honored to present the book Frida Kahlo, Her Photographs, which includes over 500 pictures from the Frida Kahlo Museum Archive. Pablo Ortiz Monasterio―a photographer, editor, curator, and eager promoter of photography in Mexico―was in charge of this selection.

Upon making his donation through the Trust Fund, the great artist Diego Rivera asked Ms. Dolores Olmedo to store the archive and only make it public fifteen years after his death. Ms. Olmedo kept the archive for over fifty years, and so, after her passing, the Trust Fund Technical Committee decided to open it, catalog it, and make it public. Both the recovery and the classification of materials were possible due to the generosity of ADABI (Department for the Development of Archives and Libraries in Mexico), an institution chaired by María Isabel Grañén Porrúa and Mr. Alfredo Harp Helú.

This is an important and original archive that will certainly allow us to delve into the life and works of Frida Kahlo. Out of the vast range of works discovered, the selection here presented constitutes a true expedition into Frida’s intimate family life and also provides a good chance to know the artist’s world through pictures taken by her father, other photographers, and Frida herself.

This book, published as a co-edition and generously supported by Ramón and Javier Reverté, chairs of Editorial RM, features seven different sections into which the photographic works have been divided: “The Origins,” “Father,” “The Casa Azul,” “Broken Body,” “Love,” “Photography,” and “Political Struggle,” which are accompanied by essays written by Masayo Nonaka, Gaby Franger and Rainer Huhle, Laura González Flores, Mauricio Ortiz, Gerardo Estrada, James Oles, and Horacio Fernández. These personalities are experts from different countries―Germany, Spain, the United States, Japan, and Mexico―who present to us their views on the materials gathered in this publication.

It is so, then, that the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust Fund materializes Diego Rivera’s will―to preserve the artistic treasures donated to the people of Mexico and to render them accessible for a better understanding of the works by these great artists.

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