Graciela Iturbide's Mexico - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Iturbide is modern Mexico's subtlest, most profound chronicler</strong></p><p>Graciela Iturbide, best known for her iconic photographs of Mexican indigenous women, has engaged with her homeland as a subject for the past 50 years in images of great variety and depth. The intensely personal, lyrical photographs collected and interpreted in this book show that, for Iturbide, photography is a way of life--as well as a way of seeing and understanding Mexico, with all its beauties, rituals, challenges and contradictions. <p/>The Mexico portrayed here is a country in constant transition, defined by tensions and exchanges between new and old, urban and rural, traditional and modern. Iturbide's deep connection with her subjects--among them political protests, celebrations and rituals, desert landscapes, cities, places of burial and Mexico's artistic heritage--produces indelible images that encompass dreams, symbols, reality and daily life. <p/>Published to accompany the first major museum exhibition of Iturbide's work on the East Coast, this volume presents more than 100 beautifully reproduced black-and-white photographs, accompanied by illuminating essays inviting readers to share in Graciela Iturbide's personal artistic journey through the country she knows so intimately. <p/>One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Mexican photographer <b>Graciela Iturbide</b> (born 1942) began studying photography in the 1970s with legendary photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Seeking "to explore and articulate the ways in which a vocable such as 'Mexico' is meaningful only when understood as an intricate combination of histories and practices," as she puts it, Iturbide has created a nuanced and sensitive documentary record of contemporary Mexico.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It is the empathy expressed by Iturbide and the deft juxtaposition of locations and subjects that makes Iturbide's work so fascinating to view.-- "ARTFIXdaily"<br><br>"Graciela Iturbide's Mexico" is a broad and passionate retrospective of four decades spent elucidating the complex and colorful Mexican culture.--Elin Spring "What Will You Remember?"<br><br>[Iturbide] often makes what may be perfectly everyday seem simultaneously otherwise.--Paul Carey-Kent "FAD"<br><br>As a perpetual guest, Iturbide became a master of the threshold, of doorways and frames, storefront windows and cemeteries, masks and carnival, of the moments preceding and following transformation.--Christopher Alessandrini "New York Review of Books"<br><br>Graciela Iturbide may be one of the most renowned photographers working today. Five decades into her journey with a camera, her work, most famously in indigenous communities in her native Mexico, has achieved that rare trifecta -- admired by critics, revered by fellow photographers and adored by the public.--Evelyn Nieves "New York Times: Photo Lens Blog"<br><br>Graciela Iturbide projects her vision of Mexico: a country of political, religious, social, cultural and economic pluralities and tensions. A place where contrasts present themselves at every turn - sometimes harmonious, sometimes tense.--Charlotte Jansen "British Journal of Photography"<br><br>Graciela Iturbide's photographs are the sorts of images that sear themselves into the mind, the subjects of her portraits becoming familiar figures around which one can imagine entire lives. It's a generous sort of intimacy she creates, giving viewers depths and details but leaving space to wonder.--Sara Roffino "Brooklyn Rail"<br><br>Graciela Iturbide's Mexico plumbs the wells of mexicanidad as captured by the lens of Iturbide.--Kate Sutton "Bookforum"<br><br>Graciela Iturbide's Mexico, a new book that accompanies an exhibition of the same name currently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston... includes her best-known work from the extended periods she spent in indigenous communities 40-odd years ago.--Jo Tuckman "Guardian"<br><br>In the course of her half-century-long career, Iturbide has made a case for seeing oneself in the other.--Stephania Taladrid "New Yorker"<br><br>In Graciela Iturbide's Mexico we enter into Iturbide's realm -- a world that is rich with raw, intense, visceral sensations of life and death.--Miss Rosen "Feature Shoot"<br><br>Iturbide has spent a life finding the fantastical amongst the ordinary.--Elyssa Goodman "Artsy"<br><br>Taken together, her images present a full-bodied portrait of her home country, shining light on a land under constant transformation.--Tate Dillow "Flaunt"<br><br>Tapping in to ideas of community, the poetic images expand on the genre of documentary photography to offer symbolic representations of life in Mexico and the US.-- "Aesthetica"<br><br>The people who inhabit "Graciela Iturbide's Mexico" are invariably presented with dignity, however extraordinary their rituals and animating tics; they persevere in a land of intense sunlight, dark shadows and whirring birds.--William Meyers "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>The Fact That Graciela Will Not Photograph Anyone Without Their Consent, And That She Spends A Good Amount Of Time With Her Subjects Is Very Evident. Her Understanding Of The Culture And People Translates Into Every Photograph.--Jim Fitts "Photoweenie"<br>
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