Frida Kahlo: Love Letters
Written in her late teens around the accident that reshaped her body, these letters catch a painter becoming herself in a voice far less certain than the public Frida.
Kahlo’s letters to Alejandro Gómez Arias, written in her late teens around the bus accident that reshaped her body and her work, a record of a painter becoming herself in a voice much younger and more uncertain than the public Frida. Edited by Suzanne Barbezat, they catch her before the iconography hardened, when she was still a student writing to a boy who had stopped writing back.
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Maria Popova
Her letters to Alejandro, collected in the altogether stirring volume Frida Kahlo: Love Letters (public library) edited by Suzanne Barbezat, offer a rare glimpse of her becoming — as an artist, as a lover, as a person who lived with extraordinary vulnerability, extraordinary courage, and the precocious awareness that the conversation between the two is the measure of a life.
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