BIRDS - Graciela Iturbide, Guilhem Lesaffre
A leading figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center framing, graphic effects and the power of shadows create a poetic universe where a sense of strangeness mingles with that of raw reality. The powerful balance of his compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, comical and unexpected situations in which chickens wait quietly on market stalls, pigeons quarrel with monkeys, and elsewhere moving swarms resemble veritable living organisms with supple, fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away, and neither is a certain surrealist spirit. From India to Mexico, from waterfronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, herons and crows invade human space or slip in unexpectedly and solitarily. Graciela Iturbide's birds evoke both attraction and repulsion: their fragility, but sometimes also their menacing power, call out and seduce.
Published by Atelier EXB, 2019
20.5 cm x 26 cm, 104 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-36511-247-5
A leading figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center framing, graphic effects and the power of shadows create a poetic universe where a sense of strangeness mingles with that of raw reality. The powerful balance of his compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, comical and unexpected situations in which chickens wait quietly on market stalls, pigeons quarrel with monkeys, and elsewhere moving swarms resemble veritable living organisms with supple, fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away, and neither is a certain surrealist spirit. From India to Mexico, from waterfronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, herons and crows invade human space or slip in unexpectedly and solitarily. Graciela Iturbide's birds evoke both attraction and repulsion: their fragility, but sometimes also their menacing power, call out and seduce.
Published by Atelier EXB, 2019
20.5 cm x 26 cm, 104 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-36511-247-5
A leading figure in Latin American photography, Graciela Iturbide creates images that oscillate between documentary approach and lyricism. Off-center framing, graphic effects and the power of shadows create a poetic universe where a sense of strangeness mingles with that of raw reality. The powerful balance of his compositions reveals skies saturated with birds, comical and unexpected situations in which chickens wait quietly on market stalls, pigeons quarrel with monkeys, and elsewhere moving swarms resemble veritable living organisms with supple, fluid movements. For Iturbide, living birds represent freedom. But death is never far away, and neither is a certain surrealist spirit. From India to Mexico, from waterfronts to urban terraces, seagulls, eagles, pigeons, herons and crows invade human space or slip in unexpectedly and solitarily. Graciela Iturbide's birds evoke both attraction and repulsion: their fragility, but sometimes also their menacing power, call out and seduce.
Published by Atelier EXB, 2019
20.5 cm x 26 cm, 104 pages, new
ISBN : 978-2-36511-247-5
