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 Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill 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 portraying spirituality in photographs and engaging with different cultures to the importance of curiosity.
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.
About the Author
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.
Awards
Winner of Guggenheim Fellowship 1988 (United States) and W. Eugene Smith Grant 1987 (United States) and International Grand Prize 1990 (Japan) and Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award 2008 (Germany) and Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 (United States) and Award Recontres Photographiques 1991 (France).
Book Information
ISBN 9781597113700
Author Graciela Iturbide
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
Aperture Foundation works with the world's top photographers to distill 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 portraying spirituality in photographs and engaging with different cultures to the importance of curiosity.
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.
About the Author
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.
Awards
Winner of Guggenheim Fellowship 1988 (United States) and W. Eugene Smith Grant 1987 (United States) and International Grand Prize 1990 (Japan) and Hasselblad Foundation Photography Award 2008 (Germany) and Cornell Capa Lifetime Achievement Award 2015 (United States) and Award Recontres Photographiques 1991 (France).
Book Information
ISBN 9781597113700
Author Graciela Iturbide
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Aperture
Publisher Aperture
