Join us in the ICP Shop for a special signing of Graciela Iturbide’s self-titled survey (MAPFRE, $75) in celebration of the artist’s exhibition, Serious Play, on view through January 12th. This event is free to attend and does not include admission to the ICP Galleries.
About the Book
An expanded edition of the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of iconic Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide.
Published with MAPFRE.
Mexico City-born Graciela Iturbide (born 1942) is one of Latin America's most acclaimed photographers and the only Latin American woman to have received the prestigious Hasselblad Award. With a focus on identity, sexuality, festivals, rituals, daily life, death and the roles of women, Iturbide's photographs share visual stories of cultures in constant transitional periods.
Featuring over 200 photographs, this expanded edition book comprises one of the most comprehensive explorations of Iturbide's career to date, gathering an impressive and widespread selection of her work, curated by Marta Dah . It includes some of her best-known images, such as Frida Kahlo's Bedroom (2005), Those Who Live in the Sand (1979) and Juchit n (1979), as well as many lesser-known works. She pays special attention to her most iconic images and offers a cross-sectional journey from her earliest projects to her most recent creations. Over the course of her four-decade career, Iturbide has built up a poetic language of images and symbols; a consistent preoccupation is the juxtaposition between urban and rural life. The subjects of her black-and-white photography mostly reside in Latin America but encompass India, Europe and Asia as well. This volume provides an essential overview of her accomplishments.
About Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide is known for her black-and-white images of the local communities in her native Mexico. In 1979, she published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes. Iturbide has photographed in the Sonoran Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza (Mexico), as well as in Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Mexico, she studied film at the Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1969, where she was influenced by the acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. She has received several awards, including the Hasselblad and the William Klein Award. This year, she received the Premio Princesa de Asturias 2025.
Graciela Iturbide, Mujer ángel, desierto de Sonora, México, 1979. Collection Fundación MAPFRE ©Graciela Iturbide
