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Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide

$19.95 at The Getty Museum.

Written by Isabel Quintero Illustrated by Zeke Peña Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Graciela as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Graciela embarks on a photographic journey that takes her throughout her native Mexico, from the Sonoran Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, to the United States, India, and beyond. Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic…