Graciela Iturbide

b. 1942
Mexico

Black and white photo of a person with traditional face paint wearing a patterned shirt.

"The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves."

– Graciela Iturbide

Available Works

Graciela Iturbide

Mujer Ángel [Angel Woman], Sonoran Desert, 1980

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Pájaros en el Poste, Carretera [Birds on the Post, Highway], Guanajuato, 1990

Silver gelatin print
Signed

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Cristo [Christ], Chalma, 1990

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Halcón [Hawk], Seminole Territory, Florida, 1999

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Pajaros [Birds], Dolores Hidalga, Guanajuato, 1978

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Saguaro, Sonoran Desert, 1979

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas [Our Lady of the Iguanas], Juchitán, 1979

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Magnolia con Espejo [Magnolia with Mirror], Juchitán, 1986

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Autorretrato de la Infancia [Self-Portrait from Childhood], Chalma, 1984

Silver gelatin print
Signed

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Angelita [Little Angel] II, Sonora, 1979

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

El Baño de Frida [Frida’s Bathroom], Coyoacán, Mexico City, 2002

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Juchitán, 1984

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Santa María Xadani, Juchitán, 1987

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Prótesis Frida Kahlo [Frida Kahlo’s Prosthesis], Mexico City, 2005

Silver gelatin print
Signed

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Little Bull [Torito], Coyoacán, Mexico City, 1983

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Rayos-X de Pájaro [X-Ray of a Bird], 1999

Silver gelatin print
Signed

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Tonala, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, 1974

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Graciela Iturbide

Señor de los Pájaros [Lord of the Birds], 1985

Silver gelatin print
Signed

Biography

Graciela Iturbide’s photography turns on themes of spirituality, ritual, and folk and religious symbolism, often incorporating a strong social element.

In particular, her work has been heavily influenced by her time with the indigenous and migrant communities of Mexico – namely, the Zapotec, Mixtec, and Seri communities. Her portraiture has been described as ‘anthropoetic’ for its twin desires to document Mexican ethnic communities, and her commitment to an intimately poetic style of portraiture which is often labelled surreal.

Iturbide was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1942. Iturbide studied photography under Manuel Alvarez Bravo at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos. Iturbide has authored several publications with publishers such as Phaidon, Aperture, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. For the last several decades, her work has exhibited internationally, most notably the touring exhibition ‘Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico’, which was displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. Most recently, Iturbide exhibited at the Tate Modern in 2013.

Iturbide currently resides in Coyoacán, Mexico.

October 20 – November 13, 2021

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Graciela Iturbide

Biography

Graciela Iturbide’s photography turns on themes of spirituality, ritual, and folk and religious symbolism, often incorporating a strong social element.

Exhibitions

Echoes and Sediments