Source: Mirror Mirror; Portraits of Frida Kahlo. (Exhibition) May 21st - September 12th, 2015. Throckmorton Fine Art, 2015, p. 4.
Photograph: Photographic portrait of Frieda (sic) Kahlo by her father Guillermo Kahlo (1926).
Comments: Frida Kahlo was born as Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderón in 1907, Coyoacán, a suburb of Mexico City. Her mother was Mexican (Matilde Calderón), and her father was German (Wilhelm Kahlo). He was a professional photographer. This photo was taken one year after she suffered a terrible accident in a trolley collision in Mexico City which damaged her right foot and leg, which accident exacerbated her right leg that had been damaged by polio when she was seven years old.
Humanities question: What is Frieda--as her father called her--communicating about herself in her pose, as you may surmise from the photo--and what is her photographer father communicating her (i.e., his daughter) in this professionally posed photograph?