Mexico City

Niña Araña, Ostia Italia, 2010
Silver Gelatin Print
16×20″
$3,200
gracielaiturbide.org

Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City. In 1969 she enrolled at the age of 27 at the film school Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos at the Universidad Nacional Autónama de México to become a film director. However she was soon drawn to the art of still photography as practiced by the Mexican modernist master Manuel Alvarez Bravo who was teaching at the University. From 1970-71 she worked as Bravo’s assistant accompanying him on his various photographic journeys throughout Mexico.