Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Mexcio
Photograph
Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas, Juchitán, Mexcio
Our Lady of the Iguanas, Juchitan, Mexico
1979
Gelatin silver print, printed 1994
Image: 16 7/8 × 13 in. (42.9 × 33 cm)
Paper: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Ford Motor Company Fund
1994.1229.0001
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso: 'Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas' Juchitan 1979
signed on verso: Graciela Iturbide
signed on verso: Graciela Iturbide
TextGraciela Iturbide made this image of an iguana merchant while photographing the indigenous Zapotec people in Juchitán, Mexico. Zapotec culture is matriarchal, which inspired the photographer. She stated: “In the Juchitán I spent a lot of time at the public market, hanging out with the women there, these big, strong, politicized, emancipated, wonderful women. I discovered this world of women and I made it my business to spend time with them.” The photograph has become one of Iturbide’s most celebrated works and emblematic of Zapotec womanhood in general.
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
—Label text, History of Photography [Rotation 15]
