Source: WTL research files.
Photograph: Frida Kahlo by Edward Weston (1930). Weston took this photo of her at the end of the year when she accompanied Diego Rivera to San Francisco, where he had been given several commissions.
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. Earlier in 1930, she had suffered an abortion. She died in 1954. The necklaces are pre-Columbian.
Photographs of Frida Kahlo: She lived in the first completely "photography century"; she was raised by her professional photograper father; she observed herself intensely and constantly in self-portraits in which she documented her love of Mexican costumes, her joys, and her pains as if she were constructing a life-long visual diary; and she posed for thousands of other photographers including professionals, photojournalists, amateurs, and friends. Therefore, it is worth viewing a few more of the photographs for which she posed constantly and seemingly completely willingly, although she does not seem to let other photographers see much in the way of her inner life or thoughts. See the series starting with: => Frida #4a.
Humanities question: What is the famous American photographer Edward Weston communicating in this photograph about Frida Kahlo?