Aperture, 1996
First edition
Softcover, 128 pages, 245 x 290 mm
Condition: Near Fine
Graciela Iturbide's singular vision blends the passions of Frida Kahlo and Manuel Álvarez Bravo with the intuitive, precise seeing of Cartier-Bresson. Her images of Mexican villagers explore the rich territory between ethnographic, descriptive photography and surrealism, and at times Magical Realism. Iturbide's definition of beauty is complex—in turn violent, spiritual, joyous, tense or tender—and it always has to do with dignity, the dignity of a ritual performed, a bond asserted, an identity worn with pride.
