«(…) her mother was the embodiment of her conflicting emotions, rational and irrational desires, and her embrace of feminity, maternity, nature, and the soul of Mexico.»
Masayo Nonaka, Frida Kahlo. Her Photos 2010
«(…) many of the Casa Azul photographs were created through the game established between the character and the camera, on one hand, and between family and social codes on the other. These pictures are fascinating not because of the objective information we can draw from them, but because in them the social drama of the Casa Azul is frozen, in a kind of perpetual present.»
Laura González Flores, Frida Kahlo. Her Photos 2010
«(…) the testimonial originality and richness of this archive lies in the great amount of photographic documents that straddle the borderline between working materials and «personal iconography». Actually, many of these images are simultaneously connected with both artists’ need to make use of «models» ―or references― in their work and their eagerness to possess the pictures of the people they admired and respected.»
Gerardo Estrada, Frida Kahlo. Her Photos 2010
«From X-ray to X-ray, from interrogatory to interrogatory, from surgery to surgery ―along with the canvas and the writing and the numerous pictures taken to her or that she asks to have taken―a collage was beginning to take shape, one that allowed to see her broken body from outside, while she also invented and imagined the decayed universe represented by it.»
Mauricio Ortiz, Frida Kahlo. Her Photos 2010
«(…) are more like bits of gossip preserved in gelatinn silver, as biased and subjective as any whisper, hearsay more than history.»
James Oles, Frida Kahlo. Her Photos 2010
«Diego: Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days. Your are the mirror of the night, the violent flash of lightning, the dampness of the earth.»
