Mujer ángel / Angel Woman, Sonora Desert
Graciela Iturbide
Mexican, born 1942

Details
Title
Mujer ángel / Angel Woman, Sonora Desert
Artist/Maker
Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, born 1942)
Date
1980
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from Louise S. Sams
Accession #
2013.158
On View
Currently not on view
After studying to be a filmmaker, Graciela Iturbide turned to photography and started working as Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s assistant. She then began traveling around Mexico, documenting the lives and customs of the country’s Indigenous peoples. In this surreal image, a Seri woman traverses a desert landscape. As Iturbide described it, “I went with a group to a cave where there are indigenous paintings. I took just one picture of this woman during the walk there. I call her Mujer Ángel because she looks as if she could fly off into the desert. She was carrying a tape recorder, which the Seris got from the Americans, in exchange for handicrafts such as baskets and carvings, so they could listen to Mexican music.”
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