Las imágenes clásicas de Frida Kahlo realizadas por Nickolas Muray, su amigo y amante durante mucho tiempo, forman una nueva exposición en el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Long Beach, California, que se inaugurará el 30 de abril. Su singular perspectiva creó una serie de imágenes íntimas que documentan su interés por la herencia mexicana y sus relaciones con amigos y familiares

En mayo de 1931 el fotógrafo Nickolas Muray (1892-1965) viajó a México de vacaciones donde conoció a Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), una mujer que nunca olvidaría. Ambos comenzaron un romance que continuó dentro y fuera durante los siguientes diez años (entre otros romances) y una amistad que duró hasta el final de sus vidas.

Aproximadamente cincuenta retratos fotográficos tomados de Frida Kahlo comprenden la exposición Frida Kahlo: A través de la lente de Nickolas Muray /  Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray. Las fotografías, que datan de 1937 a 1946, exploran la singular perspectiva de Muray; En las décadas de 1930 y 1940 fue amigo, amante y confidente de Frida Kahlo. Las fotografías de Muray ponen de manifiesto el profundo interés de Kahlo en su herencia mexicana, su vida y la gente que para ella era significativa y con la que compartió una estrecha amistad. También se incluye la reproducción de la correspondencia entre los dos.

El húngaro Muray fue un artista reconocido por derecho propio, siendo pionero en la fotografía del retrato en color. Durante su larga carrera, Nickolas Muray fotografió a muchos personajes importantes del ámbito político, artístico y social. Su trabajo fue presentado regularmente en Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, McCall y el Ladies Home Journal. El cuerpo de su obra es extenso, con más de 10.000 retratos. Muray fotografió a Kahlo más que cualquiera de sus otros temas y los retratos de ella están entre las imágenes más icónicas del artista que no son autorretratos. Estos retratos de Kahlo han recorrido diferntes medios, cultura popular y son una parte integral para conocer el mundo existente detras de la obra de arte de Frida Kahlo.
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Museum of Latin American Art. moola. 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach (Los Ángeles), CA 90802. EEUU
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Del 29 de abril a 3 de septiembre de 2017
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Esta exposición es organizada por el Nickolas Muray Archivos fotográficos y se distribuye a través de GuestCurator Traveling Exhibitions.
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Nickolas Muray was born Miklos Mandl on Febuary 15, 1892 in Szeged, Hungary. Although his name appears in the Book of Birth Registration of the Jewish Community, he was not given a Jewish name. Two years later, his father Samu, who worked as a postal employee, moved the family to Budapest in search of better educational and economic opportunities. His parents favored Miklos over the other children, as he was the most intelligent and unusually handsome, with an engaging personality. Not only did he have a temper, but he was strong-willed, rebellious, and unwilling to accept ‘no’ for an answer. Repeatedly humiliated by rampant anti-Semitism, he resented being denied, for being Jewish, opportunities given other boys. He decided as a boy that he would one day see the world, and never be confined to the limitations imposed upon him by an unfair society.

In August of 1913, armed with $25, a fifty-word Esperanto dictionary, and an unrelenting determination, twenty-one-year-old Miklos Murai arrived at Ellis Island, where he became Nickolas Muray. He immediately found work in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, at Stockinger Printing Co, doing engraving and color separation. He signed up for English night classes, eager to leave behind any trace of his accent, and he proclaimed himself an atheist.

In 1920, a friend suggested Nick open his own studio. Nick moved to a 2-room apartment at 129 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, where he lived in one room and worked in the other. Forced to economize at first, Nick kept all the lights out, except for one bulb. When a client rang the doorbell, he would turn on all the lights. Fortunately, Nick did not have to wait long for his big break. The art director for Harper’s Bazaar commissioned Nick to photograph Florence Reed, who was starring on Broadway.

Overnight, his evocative, soft focus style of portrait photography became a sensation. He was soon photographing everybody that was anybody: actors, dancers, film stars, politicians, and writers. As he grew more successful, he held Wednesday night soirees in the studio for friends and acquaintances to meet, eat, and drink – many brought flasks, as it was prohibition time. It was not unusual for Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Helen Hayes, Paul Robeson, Gertrude Vanderbilt, Eugene O’Neill, or even Jean Cocteau to make an appearance.

In 1923 Nick met artist Miguel Covarrubias, whose friendship would change Nick’s life. Nick and Miguel contributed to many of the same publications, and became the best of friends. Nick visited Miguel in his native Mexico in 1931. On that trip, Nick met Frida Kahlo, who was married to Diego Rivera. Nick and Frida’s first meeting was certainly serendipitous as Frida was supposed to have been with Diego in San Francisco.

Over the next ten years, Nick and Frida carried on a love affair in which they traveled to see one another in Mexico and New York. Their love affair is richly documented, both in their correspondence to one another, and by Nick’s iconic portraits of Frida. But despite their mutual passion, Nick eventually came to see that Frida would always stay true to Diego. He moved on with his life in New York, but a part of him would always be in love with Frida.

Following the stock market crash, Nick shifted his major focus to advertisement photography. In 1931 Nick pioneered the first illustration from a color photograph to be published in an American mass-publication magazine, a swimming pool advertisement in Ladies’ Home Journal featuring seventeen live models wear beach wear in Miami. Even charging $1,000 for a color page, he couldn’t fill the incoming orders fast enough. Soon he also had a contract with Time to do color covers for the magazine. In this period, Nick became one of the leading practicioners of color photography.

Throughout his life, Nick practiced fencing at the highest levels. Even while maintaining his place at the cutting edge of his profession, he found time to train and compete. He was the U.S. Saber Champion in 1928 and 29, and he represented the US in the 1928 and 1932 Olympics.

Nickolas Muray died while fencing in New York City, in 1965. At the time of his death, he had won over sixty fencing medals, and was hailed as “One of the twenty greatest fencers in American History.”

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