Toluca Fine Art, Paris

Graciela Iturbide: Images of the Spirit (New York: Aperture, 1996), frontispiece

Graciela Iturbide (Madrid: Fundacion Mapfre, 2009), p. 16💜1, pl. 114

Graciela Iturbide: Fotografías (Alcobendas, 2018), p. 39

“I🔜t was as though death were saying to me: “You want to photograph me, here I am.”

Graciela Iturbide, Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-portraits, and other Photographs, p. 18

Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City and studied at Universidad Nacional Autónama de México in 1969 where she met Mexican modernist master Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and eventually became his assistant. Iturbide is known for capturing traditional Mexican rituals such as Día de Los Muertos through a Surrealist lens. Iturbide’s La Muerte features a person dressed as a bride, weari🐻ng a wig and a death mask, with an arm extende🌳d outwards, showcasing the metaphorical death amongst the shadows of their veil.