Graciela Iturbide
Torito

CultureMexican
Titles
  • Torito
Date1983
PlaceMexico City, Mexico
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (32.4 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 in. (35.6 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1351
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIturbide studied photography at universities in Mexico, where she met her mentor, the teacher, cinematographer, and photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Inspired by Bravo, she developed her particular interest in the daily life of Mexico’s indigenous cultures. Iturbide has photographed things and people found in Mexico City, in her native Juchitán, in Oaxaca, and on the Mexico-U.S. border. Her camera lens often traces Mexico’s rich life of religion and rituals. Torito represents an assemblage of a bicycle frame and a cow’s skull and horn, found in Mexico City, and shows the photographer’s exploration of the relationship between the individual and the broader culture.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Photo Forum 2004", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, September 21 - December 13, 2004.

"Photo Forum 2007," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, September 17, 2007-January 14, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower left: "'torito'. Coyoacán 1981"
Signed in black, recto of sheet, beneath lower right of image: "Graciela Iturbide"

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