Frida Kahlo has long been celebrated for being extraordinary, photographer Ishiuchi Miyako asserts. From her canvases to her love affairs to her penchant for exotic pets and wild brows -- Kahlo's life was filled with distinction. "But coming into contact with her ordinary side," Ishiuchi explains, "greatly sparked my imagination and inspired me."
By "ordinary," Ishiuchi is referring to the personal, mundane aspects of this incredibly well-known painter's life. Those who count themselves amongst the cult of Frida are already privy to momentous details of her existence; her dark childhood marred by polio, the violent automobile accident that colored her early adulthood, a tumultuous marriage to fellow artist Diego Rivera, the miscarriages that haunted her art...
