Famous Mexican photographer in D.C. for new exhibition
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At the Mexican Cultural Institute last Thursday evening, Graciela Iturbide delighted a standing room-only crowd with stories and comments as decades of her acclaimed photographs scrolled across a screen.
In town for her new exhibition, “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico” at the National Museum of Women and the Arts, Iturbide is one of Mexico’s preeminent living photographers. Now in her late 70s, Iturbide has achieved icon status in Mexico for her black and white photographs of saint day fiestas, indigenous traditions and daily life.
You can see them for yourself in New York Avenue NW museum, where the exhibition will run through May 25. The solo show surveys five decades of photography by soft-spoken photographer known for capturing the Mexican experience so thoroughly that her photographs transcend the mere documentary—gently exposing deeper layers of meaning and mexicanidad.
“I travel, I meet the people, I live with them, and I learned a great deal. I don’t know if my work is good or bad. That’s something for the public to decide.”
Iturbide told CNN in an interview
Find out more
The exhibition up now at the National Museum of Women and the Arts
Watch the CNN segment with Iturbide
Read this feature story on Iturbide’s work published in the New Yorker last year
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