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A leading figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between a documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center framing, graphic effects, and the power of shadows craft a poetic world where a sense of strangeness blends with that of raw reality. The powerful balance of her compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, comical and unexpected situations where chickens wait patiently on market stalls, where pigeons squabble with monkeys, and elsewhere, shifting swarms that resemble living organisms with supple, fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away, nor is a certain surrealist spirit. From India to Mexico, from waterfronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, herons, and crows invade human spaces or slip into them unexpectedly and alone. Graciela Iturbide’s birds evoke both attraction and repulsion: their fragility, but sometimes also their threatening power, challenge and captivate.
Published by Atelier EXB, 2019
20.5 cm 26 cm, 104 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-36511-247-5
A leading figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between a documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center framing, graphic effects, and the power of shadows craft a poetic world where a sense of strangeness blends with that of raw reality. The powerful balance of her compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, comical and unexpected situations where chickens wait patiently on market stalls, where pigeons squabble with monkeys, and elsewhere, shifting swarms that resemble living organisms with supple, fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away, nor is a certain surrealist spirit. From India to Mexico, from waterfronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, herons, and crows invade human spaces or slip into them unexpectedly and alone. Graciela Iturbide’s birds evoke both attraction and repulsion: their fragility, but sometimes also their threatening power, challenge and captivate.
Published by Atelier EXB, 2019
20.5 cm 26 cm, 104 pages, like new
ISBN 978-2-36511-247-5
