Graciela iturbide biography

Written by Isabel Quintero
Illustrated by Zeke Peña

Discover the power of images through the photography of Graciela Iturbide. Born in Mexico, Iturbide blazed her own path in the photography scene of the 1970s to become one of the most accomplished photographers in the world.

Her journey is the central focus of Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, written by Isabel Quintero and illustrated by Zeke Peña. Photographic is a graphic biography of Graciela’s journey.

Preview the first two chapters of the book and explore educational resources that include two short videos, lesson plans that align with Common Core standards, and a set of companion discussion questions.

Interest Level: Ages 12 and up | Lexile® measure: 690L | Genre: Young adult biography | Themes: Arts and photography, gender roles, Latin America, grief, cultural, identity, storytelling

Mexican artist (born 1942)

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Biography

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Graciela Iturbide

One of Mexico's foremost photographers, Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942. She enrolled in 1969 at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos, where she studied film directing and still photography. In 1970 she worked as an assistant to Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), her teacher and one of Mexico's most famous photographers. By the mid-1970s she was regularly participating in group exhibitions in Mexico City and New York. Her dedication to her country's rich visual and artistic heritage and in particular to its living indigenous traditions has remained central to her work. These motifs reemerge in various guises throughout the photographer's expansive oeuvre: from the 1979 Nuestra señora de las iguanas (Our lady of the iguanas), a black-and-white photograph depicting a vernacular Madonna (or Medusa) crowned with an elaborate lizard headdress in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, to the 2008 photo-essay on the home of Frida Kahlo, which poignantly compares socialism's unfulfilled promise of political freedom with the claustrophobia and trauma embodied by Kahlo's iron corset, false leg, and other putatively therapeutic prostheses.

Her portraits of indigenous peoples in the Sonoran Desert and elsewhere, several of which bear strik