23 Facts About Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide was born on May 16,1942 and is a Mexican photographer.

Graciela Iturbide's father took pictures of her and her siblings, and she got her first camera when she was 11 years old.

Graciela Iturbide married the architect Manuel Rocha Diaz in 1962 and had three children over the next eight years: sons Manuel and Mauricio, and a daughter, Claudia, who died at the age of six in 1970.

In 1970 Graciela Iturbide turned to photography after the death of her six-year-old daughter Claudia.

Graciela Iturbide studied at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico with the intention of becoming a film director.

Graciela Iturbide realized how drawn she was to photography, which was Manuel Alvarez Bravo's area of expertise.

Graciela Iturbide was a teacher at the university as well as a cinematographer, photographer, and subsequently became her mentor.

Graciela Iturbide was inspired by the photography of Josef Koudelka, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastiao Salgado, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

Graciela Iturbide eschews labels and calls herself complicit with her subjects.

Graciela Iturbide uses photography as a way of understanding Mexico; combining indigenous practices, assimilated Catholic practices and foreign economic trade under one scope.

Graciela Iturbide became practically obsessed with death, most of her images from this time period is that of cemeteries or families heading to a cemetery.

Graciela Iturbide was in Punta Chueca for a month and a half working on the series.

In 1979, Graciela Iturbide was asked by painter Francisco Toledo to photograph the Juchitan people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca, Mexico.

Graciela Iturbide created this series between the years of 1979 to 1989 when she became entranced with the women-centered community of the Zapotec Indians, located in the Southern Mexican state of Oaxaca; the most purely indigenous community in Mexico.

Graciela Iturbide has photographed Mexican-Americans in the White Fence barrio of Eastside Los Angeles as part of the documentary book A Day in the Life of America.

Graciela Iturbide has worked in Argentina, India, and the United States.

Graciela Iturbide is a founding member of the Mexican Council of Photography.

Graciela Iturbide continues to live and work in Coyoacan, Mexico.

Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades.

Graciela Iturbide's photography is of the highest visual strength and beauty.

Graciela Iturbide has developed a photographic style based on her strong interest in culture, ritual and everyday life in her native Mexico and other countries.

Graciela Iturbide has extended the concept of documentary photography, to explore the relationships between man and nature, the individual and the cultural, the real and the psychological.

Graciela Iturbide continues to inspire a younger generation of photographers in Latin America and beyond.