The Mexican photographers Graciela Iturbide (b.1942) and Manuel
Álvarez Bravo (1902 -1992) are two of the most celebrated
photographers in Latin America. The images each artist produced of
their native Mexico have actively contributed to shaping Mexican
visual identity while concurrently offering representations of
marginalized populations that existed outside mainstream
consciousness. Through the medium of photography, both Iturbide and
Álvarez Bravo dynamically examine their own country and the myriad of
indigenous cultures within it. Drawn from MCASD's permanent
collection, México quiero conocerte: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide
and Manuel Álvarez Bravo explores the intimate connection each
photographer had to capturing aspects and ideas of Mexico.
Photographing their own homeland, their approaches to picturing the
country differed from the dominant Anglo and Eurocentric portrayals of
Mexico produced by foreign image-makers. The exhibition's title,
borrowed from a well-known photograph by Iturbide, firmly grounds how
both photographers grew to learn and explore their national landscape
through the lens of their cameras. The works presented in this
exhibition make evident the continual dialogue each artist had with
the changing landscape of their country, while highlighting their
contributions to ideas of myth in Mexico. Visit Website
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