Artist
Lourdes Grobet(Mexican, 1940–2022)Mexican, 1940–2022
CultureMexican
Titles
- La Bruja
- from the series La Doble Lucha
Date1982–1983
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.9 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the estate of Esther Parada
Object number2006.430
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
"I was interested in lucha libre [Mexican wrestling] since I was a little girl," Lourdes Grobet recalled. Yet, she was not allowed to attend the matches: "The problem was that I was a girl." Grobet finally attended as an adult with her camera, but found new resistance to her presence: "The organizers were annoyed with me at first, because they had never had a woman photographer doing what I was doing." Focusing her camera on female wrestlers, Grobet highlighted the double standards that women pursuing many professions face. She said, "I was taking photographs of cultural paradigms."
ProvenanceEsther Parada, Saxtons River, Vermont; given to MFAH, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso lower rjight: "La Bruja"
Marked in pencil on verso upper right: "50"
Marked in pencil on verso upper right: "50"
Marked in pencil on verso upper left: "Lourdes Grobet"
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Lourdes Grobet
1981
Gelatin silver print
2006.417