Dr. Lakra y Graciela Iturbide
Fotografias / Conversacion
Graciela Iturbide and Dr. Lakra agreed to collaborate blindly on this book project in 2016. The 20 photographs in the book were taken by Ms. Iturbide in Los Angeles, California, in 1984: the originals as Kodachrome slides, hitherto unpublished. The photographic images were printed in off-set, 4 color hand separation, from zinc plates. The plates were made and printed in Merida, Mexico. The images are hand-tipped, one to each page. The words accompanying the photographs are Dr. Lakra’s own. They were taken from a conversation that took place late one evening at La Popular, Oaxaca, on May 12th, 2016. Dr. Lakra made the end papers: a deep etch copper plate engraving printed on yellow paper. The piece by Ms. Iturbide wrote regarding her photographs was published by Luna Cornea Magazine in 1987. All text was printed in handset typography in Oaxaca. The binding, also hand made in Oaxaca, is a loose hard cover, the boards covered in printed, yellow paper with a black Percalina spine and borders. The pages are sewn by hand with black thread.
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Graciela Iturbide
One of the most influential photographers active in Latin America today, Graciela Iturbide began her photographic practice in the 70s, working under legendary photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. Initially, Iturbide photographed everyday life in Mexico City. But, like Alvarez Bravo, she was curious about the country's culture outside the capital, especially the Native aspects celebrated by the postrevolutionary artists and intellectuals whose circle Alvarez Bravo had been part of in his youth. He encouraged her to visit pre-Hispanic communities and bring back her own interpretation of the ancient customs surviving in modern Mexico. In 1979 she notably published Juchitán de las Mujeres, a book of photographs that inspired her lifelong support of feminist causes, which came to be her most iconic body of work. She most often depicts women, believing them to embody independence and sexuality. Iturbide has documented the cultures within Mexico including, notably, Sonora Desert and Juchitán de Zaragoza. However, in her later work, Iturbide has traveled around her work documenting different cultures, including Cuba, Panama, India, Argentina, and the United States. Iturbide notably was the first living female artist to have a retrospective at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2007, with the opening of her exhibition The Goats Dance, but has had profound success in the field of photography, having been honored with the Hasselblad award, as well as many major showings including at the Boston Museum of Fine Art in 2019, and The Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in 2021.
