Graciela Iturbide
Mujer ángel, Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979
gelatin silver print
16" x 20"
signed recto in ink
Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of local people in her native country of Mexico. She most often depicts women, believing them to embody independence and sexuality, and in 1979 she notably published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs which inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico, as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she went on to study film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de Mexico in 1969, where she came under the influence of acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Iturbide went on to work as Bravo’s photography assistant, and his methods and aesthetics have had a lasting effect on her photography practice.
List of Photographs
1: México, 1969
2: Cristina, White Fence, East LA, 1986
3: Torito, Coyoacán, Mexico, 1981
4: Radiografia de un pájaro, Oaxaca, 1999
5: Autorretrato como Seri, Desierto de Sonora (Self-Portrait as Seri),
Sonoran Desert, 1979
6: Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Mexico, 1979
7: Manos ponderosas, Juchitán, 1986
8: Nuestra señora de las iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979
9: Pájaros en el poste, Guanajuato, 1990
10: Mujer ángel, Desierto de Sonora, México, 1979
11: Muerte novia, Chalma, 1990
12: Los pollos, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1979
13: Jano, Ocumichu, Michoacán, 1981
14: La frontera, Tijuana, México, 1990
15: Cementario, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1988
16: Heroes de la Patria, Cuetzalán, Puebla, 1993
All photographs are 16 x 20 inch gelatin silver prints signed recto in ink
© Graciela Iturbide, courtesy Etherton Gallery
