Los Angeles : The J. Paul Getty Museum, [2018]
95 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
What a great little book! I love that this introduction to the photography of Graciela Iturbide is published by the Getty Museum. Using the medium of the graphic novel (along with inserted actual photos by Iturbide - such as this phenomenal one of a woman with iguanas on her head) is a brilliant way to introduce a visual artist.
I also appreciate the writing of this book. The movement of the narrative is both informative and clear, but also dreamy and poetic. Take for instance this passage from page 18 - where Iturbide has taken her first photo while on a plane:
I become a bird in the heavens
and am filled with birds.
The camera awakens wings.
The wings give me new eyes.
And I will never stop flying.
It is also great that a book celebrates a living artist - a woman artist, and a Mexican artist, too! Wonderful!
