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Mathew Brady, William Henry Jackson and Edward Steichen dominate the pictorial record at the turn of the 20th century.
In 2016, London’s Tate Britain curator Carol Jacobi said of the history of photography, “people are not expecting women to be there, so they don’t look for their work.”
“Daphne Cobb reading a Kodak manual,” ca. 1920, digital reproduction of a glass plate negative. Taught by her mother Eddie, Daphne was a talented photographer and advocate of women entering the professional and business realm. (Courtesy of The Albuquerque Museum)
“We Lead, Others Follow,” opening at the Albuquerque Museum March 6, aims to change that focus through the work of five Albuquerque photographers. The exhibition runs through Nov. 14.
Lots of love.
Love that spreads across the sky in stars that spell out his wife’s name, Anne, last year’s big gesture, created with the help of the planetarium folks at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.
Love that circles the globe in photos of random folks in more than 65 countries who held signs that read “I Love Anne” sent at Anderson’s request.
Love that is written in an e.e. cummings poem with 6,500 pebbles, in a giant piñata and paper flowers taller than their South Valley house, in a working carousel in their yard, in a throne fit for a queen.
You don’t have to go to a museum to find Frida Kahlo.
She’s in Old Town gift shops, plastered across T-shirts, candles and socks.
Etsy boasts 38,510 Frida items, including stickers, coasters, quilts, kimonos, masks and bobbleheads.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art sells Frida sleep masks and cutting boards. There’s even a Frida Barbie with a divided unibrow.
The Albuquerque Museum is leaning into the mania, launching “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” on Saturday, Feb. 6. The same show sold out in Denver.
In 2017, the Dallas Museum of Art organized a Frida look-alike mob on what would have been her 110th birthday, for which they attempted a Guinness World Record for the most-ever Fridas. The crowd numbered about 1,100.