Frida by Ishiuchi

Photographs by Ishiuchi Miyako.

‘The human body is vulnerable to the ravages of passing time. Our bodies transformed by the hour, by the day, refusing to stay the same over the course of even a single day. Only clothes, accessories and cosmetics can protect us. Frida Kahlo prized them all, and imbuing them with her love, adorned herself in her personal aesthetic, using her attire to express her will for life. The objects that touched her flesh remain alive; together, the things she left behind appear before me, conveying her existence.’

‘Frida, who had no choice but to coexist with her fragile flesh and organs, expressed her life and confronted her looming death by depicting her destiny with the clothes she used to dress her body.’ - Ishiuchi Miyako

These photographs taken at Frida’s Blue House in Mexico celebrate and mourn traces of her life. This is a beautiful first edition hardback book, published in 2013 and in very good condition. 117 pages. Text in Spanish. 2013.