Graciela Iturbide
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942. She studied cinematography at the National University of Mexico where she took a still photography class with Manuel Álvarez Bravo and became his assistant for a year and a half. In 1979 she began her series on the culture of the Zapotecs--in particular the women--of Juchitán, for which she received the Eugene Smith Award in 1987.
Her work, which fuses her interest in traditional culture with a contemporary gaze revelatory of the symbolic power of images, has gained for her enormous recognition in Mexico and all over the world. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988, the Hokkaido Prize in Japan in 1990, the Arles Photographic Prize in 1991, as well as recent awards in Brazil and Italy.
She has exhibited internationally at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris (1982), the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art (1988), the Austin Museum of Art (2000), and the San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City (2002). She is considered one of Latin America's finest photographers. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to include 127 photographs by Iturbide in our collection, the largest in the U.S.
Quito, Ecuador
1984
Silver gelatin print
Graciela Iturbide
