Frida Kahlo, the enchanting Mexican painter best known for her magnificently surreal and poignant self-portraits, is the focus of a fascinating exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. Mirror Mirror…Portraits of Frida Kahlo presents over fifty rare and vintage photographs of Kahlo by an array of the twentieth century’s leading photographers, including Lola Alvarez Bravo, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Florence Arquin, Lucienne Bloch, Imogen Cunningham, Gisèle Freund, Hector Garcia, Bernice Kolko, Peter Juley, Dora Maar, Leo Matiz, Hermanos Mayo, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray, Carl van Vechten, Edward Weston, and others.

Kahlo became acquainted with how she looked through a photographer’s lens at an early age thanks to her...