Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Rosario y su bebé, White Fence, East Los Ángeles, 1986
Silver Gelatin Print
8 x 10 in
20.3 x 25.4 cm
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Graciela Iturbide captures Rosario and her baby, Boo Boo, in the backseat of a 1970s Chevy Impala. Rosario signals to a friend as she prepares to feed her crying baby....
Graciela Iturbide captures Rosario and her baby, Boo Boo, in the backseat of a 1970s Chevy Impala. Rosario signals to a friend as she prepares to feed her crying baby. Despite Boo Boo's tears, she maintains her composure; her movements are calm, almost ritualistic. The car becomes an extension of the domestic space, a site where care unfolds amid the texture of everyday life. As Alfonso Morales Carillo notes in White Fence Revisited, "Like the master bed in the apartment on Pomeroy Avenue, the interior of that vehicle was spacious enough for Rosario to tend to Boo Boo's needs and for Cristina to apply her eyeliner." This series foregrounds women’s strength and matrilineal bonds, questioning patriarchal family models. It explores complex identity formations and the collective connections of border communities, employing a visual language that transforms conventions of studio portraiture.
Provenance
Graciela Iturbide's StudioExhibitions
Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias, Ruiz Healy Art, New York, NY, 2025, (catalogue)Graciela Iturbide: Shadowlines, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom; curators: Alexis Fabry and Anna Dannemann, 2024
Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France; curators: Alexis Fabry and Marie Perennès, 2022 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide: Cuando Habla La Luz, Palacio de Iturbide, Ciudad de México; curator: Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera, 2018 (catalogue)
Publications
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias. New York: Ruiz Healy Art, editor: Patricia Ruiz-Healy, 2025 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela y Alfonso Morales Carrillo. White Fence. Barcelona | Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2024, p. 57 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France, 2022, p. 275 (illustrated)
Coronel Rivera, Juan Rafael, Iturbide, Graciela, et al. Graciela Iturbide: Cuando Habla La Luz. Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2017, p. 248 (illustrated)
