Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide (born May 16, 1942 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican photographer . The focus of her work is the everyday life of various communities in Mexico.
Life
Graciela Iturbide was born the eldest of three children to a wealthy family. She received her education in Catholic boarding schools.
In 1969 she began studying at the national film school in Mexico, the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos (CUEC). In 1970 she became the assistant to the photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo . After the sudden death of her six-year-old daughter in the same year, her life changed radically - she made photography her profession. In 1974 she documented General Omar Torrijos ' attempt to build a left regime in Panama . In 1979 she was invited to Juchitán by the painter Francisco Toledo to take part in an exhibition on the culture of the Zapotecs . In 1981 she published her photo report Los que viven en la arena (Eng. They live in the sand ) about the Seri Indians in the Sonoran Desert . In 2006 she was able to take photos in Frida Kahlo's house . Iturbide photographed "depressing stagings as well as self-stagings with Kahlo's personal items".
One of her most famous pictures is Our Lady of the Iguanas , which was created in 1979 in Juchitán, Oaxaca. It shows a woman wearing iguanas as a headdress.
She has been married to the architect Manuel Rocha since 1962. Two sons and a daughter were born from the marriage.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1975 First group exhibition at Galeria Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico City
- 1980 First solo exhibition in the Casa des Cultura in Juchitán, Oaxaca
- 1982 Exhibition at the Center Pompidou in Paris
- 2000 Solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Argentina
- 2013/2014 solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art , London
Prices
- 1987 W. Eugene Smith Prize for Humanistic Photography
- 1990 International Grand Prize, Hokkaido, Japan
- 2008 Hasselblad Prize
Books by Iturbide
- Images of the spirit . New York, Aperture Foundation, 2006, ISBN 0-89381-681-7
- La Forma y la Memoria. ("Form and Memory), 1996
- Iturbide, G., & Bradu, F .: Eyes to fly with: portraits, self-portraits, and other photographs . Wittliff Gallery series. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2006, ISBN 0-292-71462-9
Literature on Iturbide
- Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0
- Cuauhtémoc Medina: Graciela Iturbide. Phaidon, Berlin, 2001 ISBN 0-7148-9255-6
- Gili, M .: Graciela Iturbide . London, Phaidon, 2006 ISBN 0-7148-4570-1
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM): 7 portafolios Mexicanos: exposicion por diversos paises, Centro cultural de Mexico, April-Mayo de 1980. Difusión Cultural, 1980 (Spanish).
Web links
- Literature by and about Graciela Iturbide in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
- Graciela Iturbide's CV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Those who live in the sand: Graciela Iturbide in Frankfurt - kwerfeldein - magazine for photography. In: kwerfeldein. March 27, 2019, accessed on September 26, 2019 (German).
- ^ Video statement by the artist in the exhibition , accessed on August 6, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Iturbide, Graciela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |