What is Graciela Iturbide doing now?
She is a founding member of the Mexican Council of Photography. She continues to live and work in Coyoacán, Mexico. In awarding her the 2008 Hasselblad Award, the Hasselblad Foundation said: Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades.
What did Graciela Iturbide do?
Iturbide is the founder of the Consejo Mexicano de Fotografía, and a recipient of various awards and prizes including the Swedish Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award in 2008.
Where did Graciela Iturbide take photos?
Iturbide took Mujer Ángel in the Sonora Desert in 1979. The image captures a young Seri indigenous woman, with her hair down and a long dress, seemingly ready to launch herself in flight across the desert.
What did Graciela Iturbide photography?
Iturbide uses photography to try to understand Mexico in its totality, as a combination of indigenous practices, and imported and assimilated Catholic religious practices, and foreign economic trade.
Where is Graciela Iturbide from?
Mexico City, Mexico
Graciela Iturbide/Place of birth
What kind of camera does Graciela Iturbide use?
Using a 6×6 format camera, Iturbide has focused her lens on some particular piedras. Even if sometimes what she photographs is distinctly a stone, other times it is rather just something made out of stone, such as an old Italian city.
Who does Graciela Iturbide work for?
During the 1970s, Iturbide worked for the Instituto Naciola Indenista, documenting indigenous cultures. She received international acclaim for her work in the town of Juchitán, Oaxaca, where she photographed the community’s marketplace and scenes of domestic life, both of which were dominated by women.
What camera did Graciela Iturbide use?
How did Graciela Iturbide start her career?
Iturbide turned her attention to art in the late 1960s. Initially, she studied filmmaking at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México. She discovered photography while working as a studio assistant to master photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo in 1970–71.