Graciela Iturbide: The Photography Workshop Series

Description

In this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Graciela Iturbide - known for her portraits and landscapes imbued with poetic ambiguity and documentary truth - explores photographing in ways that employ a deeply personal vision, while also reflecting subjects' rich cultural backgrounds. Aperture works with the world's top photographers to distil their creative approaches, teachings, and insights on photography - offering the workshop experience in a book. Our goal is to inspire photographers of all levels who wish to improve their work, as well as readers interested in deepening their understanding of the art of photography. Through images and words, Iturbide shares her creative process and artistic inspirations, and discusses a wide range of issues, from the importance of surprise and recognising what speaks to you, to capturing symbolism and meaning in the everyday.

Graciela Iturbide (born in Mexico City, 1942), best known for her powerful photographs of Mexico, is one of the most celebrated and prolific figures in photography. Her work is collected in museums around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. She has published several monographs, including Images of the Spirit (Aperture, 1996), Eyes to Fly With (2006), and Graciela Iturbide's Mexico (2019). She has won the prestigious Hasselblad Award, as well as the Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award.