FRIDA KAHLO
(1907 - 1954)
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INVOKING FRIDA
A tribute to a beautiful, brilliant, brutal woman in honour of her centenary year.
A tribute to a beautiful, brilliant, brutal woman in honour of her centenary year.
About Invoking Frida
Invoking Frida is, simply, a tribute to Frida Kahlo, launched on July 6 2007, the day that would have been her 100th birthday.
The photographs here, collected and curated with love, were taken by many photographers, including: Nicholas Muray, Juan Guzmán, Leo Matiz, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Lola Alvarez Bravo.
For more on Frida, it is recommended you read Hayden Herrera's marvellous biography of her. To know more about the beginnings of this collection, see this.
The photographs here, collected and curated with love, were taken by many photographers, including: Nicholas Muray, Juan Guzmán, Leo Matiz, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Lola Alvarez Bravo.
For more on Frida, it is recommended you read Hayden Herrera's marvellous biography of her. To know more about the beginnings of this collection, see this.
Invoking Frida was lovingly created by Sharanya Manivannan.
13 comments:
Oh Sharanya. This is beautiful.
I love all the pictures of her...simply beautiful
I featured this in the carnival of the feminists.
http://cruellablog.blogspot.com/2007/07/carnival-of-feminists.html
Awesome! I don't know if you can tell all that well from the picture on my blogger profile, but besides being a great women's role model, I like Frida for being unapologetic for her unibrow, just like me.
What a fitting tribute to a magnificent woman.
Wow, Sharanya, what a labour of love, I have so enjoyed looking through these pictures. Frida (and I love how we can refer to her by her first name and most everyone will know how we are talking about) was a remarkable woman...I haven't read the biography by Herrera Hayden, but I have seen the Salma Hayek movie and read a couple of lesser-known biographies. I also managed to catch the PBS special on her life from a couple of years ago...it was fascinating, she was truly a remarkable lady!
I have been fascinated with Frida since Salma Hayek had first portrayed her in the documfilm. She exuded effortless power, something which most women are afraid to have.
I like the cross between surrealism and realism in her art (by my definition at least) and its unapologetic oxymoron.
What a fabulous collection! Thank you very much for doing this!
wow..
it was a great collection.. u hv work hard on it.. great
keep on goin.. :)
its a beautiful post and a fitting tribute to a great atisit and feminist.N
There is a very nice book that I would recommend to all Frida's fans to read. It's entitled "Kahlo" (A Bulfinch Press Book). It has a wonderful collection of Kahlo's paintings, photos and history.
I know Frida for the last 13 years, I read all about her, I thought also to know all her photos. I was wrong!! Beautiful pictures, wonderful!
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