GRACIELA ITURBIDE (b. 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico) studied cinematography at university and then worked as an assistant to Mexican modernist master, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. He became a lifelong mentor and encouraged her in developing her own artistic vision.
Now considered one of Mexico’s most prolific and celebrated photographers, her work has graced more than sixty exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide. In 2007, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles held a retrospective exhibition, The Goat’s Dance. Graciela Iturbide is the 2008 winner of the prestigious Hasselblad Award, and, in 2015, the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center for Photography.
The Hasselblad Foundation’s award jury said "Iturbide has extended the concept of documentary photography, to explore the relationships between man and nature, the individual and the cultural, the real and the psychological…[Her photography] is of the highest visual strength and beauty and continues to inspire a younger generation of photographers in Latin America and beyond."
Graciela Iturbide’s photography can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Tate Modern, London, the Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Casa de la Cultura de Juchitán, Oaxaca, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum of Photography, Hokkaido, Japan and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Most recently, The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum announced Graciela Iturbide as one of their 2022 Hall of Fame Inductees. She will recieve her honor on Friday, November 4, 2022. “2022 Honorees to be inducted into the Hall of Fame and Awardees include photographers or photography visionaries who demonstrate the artistry, passion and revolution of the past and present art and science of photography.”
-International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum