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Honoring Graciela Iturbide
Posted: November 4, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
NMWA honored renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942) with the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Arts.
A light-skinned older woman with brown cropped hair holds a clear rectangular award up to her face, so that half of her face is visible through the award; sunlight streams in on the woman's face and hands.

5 Fast Facts: Graciela Iturbide
Posted: May 20, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Graciela Iturbide, revealing how her process and pictures shed new light on other photographs on view in the museum’s collection.
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Iturbide and Kahlo: A Conversation
Posted: May 18, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
In one intimate photograph, Graciela Iturbide responds—and pays homage—to Frida Kahlo’s cultural legacy, creating an artistic dialogue between the two women.
A black and white photograph of a worn body brace pinned on a blank concrete wall. The photograph is taken from slightly below and to the left of the brace. Similar to a corset, the brace itself is simultaneously lonely, foreboding, and empty as it hangs.

Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico: Capturing Death
Posted: May 4, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide confronts what she calls “Mexico’s death fantasy” as it appears in the street, at festivals, and in the cemetery.
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Graciela Iturbide and La Matanza: Ritual as Practice and Subject
Posted: April 20, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
Photography and its ritualistic qualities—observation, development, and selection—is a form of therapy for Graciela Iturbide. More than simply documenting moments in time, the practice offers her a way to process...
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Beyond Documentation: Graciela Iturbide and the Seri
Posted: April 6, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
In 1979, with anthropologist Luis Barjau, Graciela Iturbide stayed with the Seri community for more than two months, recording their lives with her camera—particularly their forced adaptation to modern life,...
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Portraying Gender in Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico
Posted: March 23, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
In 1979, Graciela Iturbide traveled to Juchitán, a small town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, to photograph the Zapotec indigenous group. She immersed herself in the community during a...
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Cultural Symbols in Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico
Posted: March 9, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
The photographs of Graciela Iturbide feature social, religious, and natural symbols that define Mexican cultural and national identities in all of their complexity.
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Opening This Week: Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico
Posted: February 24, 2020
Category: Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico is the artist’s most extensive U.S. exhibition in more than two decades. The survey is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and comprises 140 poetic...
A black-and-white photograph shows the back of a woman as she crests a rocky path above a vast desert landscape beneath an expansive sky. Her traditional, ethnic full skirt, long-sleeved blouse, and long, straight, dark hair contrasts with the modern portable stereo she carries.

Photographer Graciela Iturbide: Capturing the Spirit
Posted: March 17, 2011
Category: Graciela Iturbide
Mexican artist Graciela Iturbide is considered on of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her oeuvre is rich in dramatic and intense imagery...