Frida Kahlo (Strip of Two Contact Prints)
The gaze of Frida Kahlo meets the viewer in Frida Kahlo (Strip of Two Contact Prints), a work captured by Julien Levy in 1938. This photographic study exists as a fragment of a larger moment, a piece of a series of images that Julien Levy gathered while the subject was gaining visibility within the United States. The presence of the woman in the frame feels immediate, as if the camera…








