Margaret Hooks
 Spanish paperback edition  Spanish hardcover edition |
Frida Kahlo: Portraits of an IconFrida Kahlo: Portraits of an Icon, examines the great Mexican artist through the lens of the most renowned photographers of the twentieth century. The images in this volume span Kahlo’s lifetime, beginning with a photograph of the self-possessed chubby four-year-old with her fistful of wilting roses and ending forty-two years later with the image of an emaciated, wasted figure on her deathbed dressed in Pre-Columbian finery.
In addition to meticulously documenting the circumstances of the photographic sessions, Margaret Hooks' text includes detailed information on the photographers who made these extraordinary portraits, and provides profound insight into Frida Kahlo's manipulation of the camera to conceal what she preferred to hide and reveal the persona she wanted to project. Turner Books, Madrid, 2002, 152 pps., w/ill., cat., hardcover. ISBN: 8475065643. Bloomsbury, London, & U.S. edition pub. D.A.P., New York, 2003 |
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