Frida's Mexico and Bunuel, Colombian honored at the Leo Matiz Gallery

Thursday, 25 February, 09:19 PM Mexico, Feb 25 (EFE) .- El Mexico de Frida Kahlo and Luis Buñuel receives a tribute through the lens of the Colombian photographer Leo Matiz (1917-1998), whose work on Mexican life was compiled in a book launched today. In "Leo Matiz Mexico" are portrayed "the eight Mexicos" who captured with his camera during the ten years that remained in the nation, after all Central America to walk to get there , described her daughter Alejandra Efe. The pre-Hispanic, that of the forgotten, indigenous, children, the elderly, the landscapes and "Leo Matiz" make up the volume, said his daughter, the man behind the book with the Secretariat of Culture of the Federal District. "My dad loved to Mexico not only for its light, its colors and aromas, but it was the country that reached out and gave him unparalleled friends," she recounted. Among them were the muralists Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, the painter Frida Kahlo, the actress Maria Felix ( "La Dona") and the Spanish film director Luis Buñuel, with whom he worked closely. The composer Agustin Lara, actor Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" , actor Pedro Armendáriz and muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros were also photographed by Matiz. The forties are portrayed in images of urban life and cultural capital, and the characters and artists who were part of the "golden age "Mexico, Alejandra Matiz added." Among the favorite pictures are the forty that my father made Frida, because they are images that no other photographer had the idea to do, "he said." Frida buying fabrics "," Frida's pulque "," On the Street "and" Frida painting his paintings "are among them. The photographic work in the book is accompanied by the Mexican historian Luis Martin Lozano-skilled in the art of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, which conducted an investigation into the decade of the Colombian artist in Mexico. Leo Matiz Foundation recently donated to the Museum of Photography Archive in Mexico City 15,000 positive, 500,000 negatives and 300 cameras, as well as letters and newspaper clippings belonging to the photographer . Some of his works will be put up for sale. After ten years working and studying in Mexico, Hue had to leave the country after David Alfaro Siqueiros, after a dispute, burn their study. Half a century later, he returned to Mexico almost blind and created one of his last photographs. Among his best-known pictures are "So Caracas", "Here was the Liberator," The metaphor of the eye "and" Electa Editrice. Average (Not Rated)