Quince años, Juchitán, México (Fifteen, Juchitán, Mexico)
1985, printed 1990
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.25 × 15 cm (8 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Kyle Roberts)
Accession Number
2015.19.4668.5
About the Artist
Graciela Iturbide
Graciela Iturbide, born on May 16, 1942, in Mexico City, emerged as one of the most influential photographers of Latin America. The eldest of thirteen children in a traditional Catholic family, she received her first camera at age eleven, fostering an early fascination with images as vessels of memory. Married to architect Manuel Rocha Díaz in 1962, she raised three children, including composer an...