Graciela Iturbide, photographer

Born in 1942 in Mexico City, Iturbide worked as Manuel Alvarez Bravo’s assistant, accompanying him on various photographic journeys throughout Mexico. Between 1980-2000 she photographed throughout East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris, and the U.S., to produce a number of important bodies of work.

Iturbide is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Foundation Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her solo exhibitions have been shown at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Paul Getty Museum, among many others.