Cathalena E. Burch Renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, top photography awards in France and Japan and been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.
The photograph is of a Seri woman carrying a tape recorder she had traded for handicrafts with Americans. The woman, according to the photographer, “looked as if she could fly off into the desert.” Rage Against the Machine used the image on the cover of their 1997 single"Vietnow." People are also reading… Iturbide took up photography in the early 1970s and has been documenting, mostly in black-and-white images, the lives of Indigenous and Mexican people. Her subjects have included strong feminist statements through the women of the Zapotec Indians in Oaxaca and the Seri Indians along the Arizona/Sonora border, as well as an early-career series focusing on death, mostly of infants and children.
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