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“A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.”

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Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide, born on May 16, 1942, is a renowned Mexican photographer known for her profound depictions of rural life in Mexico and her focus on social issues. more

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“I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.”

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“Portrait photography never had any charms for me, so I sought my subjects from the house-tops, and finally from the hill-tops and about the surrounding country; the taste strengthening as my successes became greater in proportion to the failures.”

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“[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.”

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“Since 1873, I have been back four or five times. I have used the best cameras and the most sensitive emulsions on the market. I have snapped my shutter, morning, noon and afternoon. I have never come close to matching those first plates. (On photographing The Mountain of the Holy Cross)”

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Book:An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

Source: An eye for history: the paintings of William Henry Jackson : from the collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

“And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.”

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“I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.”

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“In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.”

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“All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.”

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“The key to artistic photography is to work out your own thoughts, by yourselves. Imitation leads to certain disaster. New ideas are always antagonized. Do not mind that. If a thing is good it will survive.”

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“I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the nomadic button and the ceaseless call for sympathy, and the greatest demand on time and patience. My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people... to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential temperament that is called, soul, humanity.”