Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide ( born May 16, 1942 in Mexico City ) is a major Latin American photographer.

Life

Graciela Iturbide is the oldest of three children in a relatively wealthy family. She gets her education in Catholic boarding schools. In 1962 she married the architect Manuel Rocha and gets three children, two sons and a daughter. In 1969 she began her studies at the National Film School in Mexico, the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos ( CUEC ). In 1970 she is assistant to the photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. After the sudden death of her six- year-old daughter in the same year her life changes radically - they make photography their profession. In 1974 she documented in Panama General Omar Torrijos ' attempt to build a left regime. In 1979 she was invited by the painter Francisco Toledo to Juchita'n to take part in an exhibition on the culture of the Zapotecs. 1981 release of her photo reportage " Los que Viven en la arena" ( Those who live in the sand ) on the Seri Indians in the Sonoran Desert.

One of your most famous paintings is " Our Lady of the Iguanas ", the 1979 in Juchita'n, Oaxaca, arises. It shows a woman wearing iguanas as a headdress.

Exhibitions (selection)

Prices

Books of Iturbide

  • Images of the spirit. New York, Aperture Foundation, 2006, ISBN 0893816817
  • La Forma y la Memoria. ("Form and Memory ), 1996
  • Iturbide, G., & Bradu, F.: Eyes to fly with: portraits, self - portraits, and other photographs. Wittliff Gallery series. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2006, ISBN 0292714629

Literature on Iturbide

  • Cuauhtémoc Medina: Graciela Iturbide. Phaidon Press, 2001 ISBN 0-7148-9255-6
  • Gili, M.: Graciela Iturbide. London, Phaidon, 2006 ISBN 0714845701
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM ): 7 portafolios Mexicanos: exposicion por diversos paises, Centro cultural de Mexico, abril - mayo de 1980 Difusión Cultural, 1980 ( Spanish). .
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