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Graciela Iturbide's Mexico : photographs

Title

Graciela Iturbide's Mexico : photographs / Kristen Gresh ; with an essay by Guillermo Sheridan.

Author

Iturbide, Graciela, 1942-

Publication

Boston : MFA Publications ; [2019]
New York, New York : Distributed by ARTBOOK / D.A.P., [2019]
©2019

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Description

239 pages : illustrations; 25 x 26 cm

Summary

Graciela Iturbide, best known for her iconic photographs of Mexican indigenous women, has engaged with her homeland as a subject for the past 50 years in images of great variety and depth. The intensely personal, lyrical photographs collected and interpreted in this book show that, for Iturbide, photography is a way of life--as well as a way of seeing and understanding Mexico, with all its beauties, rituals, challenges and contradictions. The Mexico portrayed here is a country in constant transition, defined by tensions and exchanges between new and old, urban and rural, traditional and modern. Iturbide's deep connection with her subjects--among them political protests, celebrations and rituals, desert landscapes, cities, places of burial and Mexico's artistic heritage--produces indelible images that encompass dreams, symbols, reality and daily life. Published to accompany the first major museum exhibition of Iturbide's work on the East Coast, this volume presents more than 100 beautifully reproduced black-and-white photographs, accompanied by illuminating essays inviting readers to share in Graciela Iturbide's personal artistic journey through the country she knows so intimately. One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) began studying photography in the 1970s with legendary photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Seeking "to explore and articulate the ways in which a vocable such as 'Mexico' is meaningful only when understood as an intricate combination of histories and practices," as she puts it, Iturbide has created a nuanced and sensitive documentary record of contemporary Mexico.

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Genre/Form

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Graciela Iturbide's Mexico, organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 19-May 12, 2019"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-33).

Contents

Early work -- The Seri -- Juchitán -- La Mixteca -- Fiestas -- Death -- Birds -- Botanical garden -- Frida's bathroom -- Paths, frontiers, mirrors / Guillermo Sheridan.

ISBN

9780878468584
0878468587

LCCN

2018957943

OCLC

on1080642283
1080642283
SCSB-9287158

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library