Discovering contemporary Mexico beyond the daily headlines: The images of Graciela Iturbide – The Washington Post

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Graciela Iturbide’s exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is called “Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico,” suggesting that what we ought to see in her pictures is a coherent way of interpreting a misunderstood nation.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/2019/03/08/discovering-contemporary-mexico-beyond-daily-headlines-images-graciela-iturbide/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a340ef658d1a

Which is why 2019 is the appropriate year for the world to discover Graciela Iturbide, who now has extensive exhibitions in Boston and Mexico City. For a half-century, Iturbide has traveled across her own country with a camera loaded with black-and-white film. She has taken pictures that are often described as dreamlike, surreal or painterly, but those words fall short.