Graciela Iturbide and her incredible legacy has been taken to many parts of the world.Jack Mitchell / Getty images.
Thus, with all the cultural background behind already its side, in 1978, Graciela Iturbide was commissioned by the ethnographic archive of the National Indigenous Institute of Mexico to document the indigenous population of the country, but far from taboos and clichés, but with a much more realistic optics. Thus arrived in the Seri town, made up of nomadic fishermen in Sonora, very close to Arizona. In fact, this work led her to the top of the cultural community, because a year later, she was invited by Francisco Toledo to photograph another town, this time Juchitán in Oaxaca, which marked a series that extended until 1988.
With these works – and many others – to his credit, Graciela Iturbide was invited to work in Cuba, Germany, Hungary, Paris and the United States, Among other countries to produce photographic works for social and documentary purposes, demonstrating that their vision of the world is much deeper than it always seems. At present, after many individual exhibitions, Iturbide is collecting a series of photographs of «Las Piedras», which are images of Japan and Machu Picchu; as well as volcanoes in Spain.
Graciela Iturbide is known worldwide.AFP / Getty Images.
Graciela Iturbide works and exhibitions
Graciela Iturbide's first exhibition took place in 1980in the house of the lake in the CDMX and was titled as is Graciela Iturbide, He traveled to Paris, to Georges Pompidou Center the following year. In 1985 it was exposed for the first time Juchitán In the House of Culture of Juchitán and later, he traveled to Switzerland and Milan in 1987, while in 1989 he exhibited in the United Kingdom, Argentina and the CDMX. By 1990 he returned to France, now with the Expo Juchitán Town of Cloudalso, in Japan and in the United States it was presented EXTERNAL ENCOUNERS, INTERNATIONAL IMAGININGS: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, And also Neighbors.