Joel Salcido
Atotonilco El Alto, 2012
Archival Pigment ink print on cotton fiber paper
29 x 41 in
73.7 x 104.1 cm
73.7 x 104.1 cm
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof
Joel Salcido grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, immersed in a dual cultural reality. As a staff photographer at the El Paso Times, he documented the Tarahumara Indigenous tribe of...
Joel Salcido grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, immersed in a dual cultural reality.
As a staff photographer at the El Paso Times, he documented the Tarahumara Indigenous tribe of Mexico, covered the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and traveled extensively in Latin America for USA Today. In 1991, he resigned as Photo Editor of the El Paso Times to pursue a freelance and fine art career. Eight years later, he moved his family to Spain to work on his year-long project, Spain: Millennium Past. The artist was a finalist for the Fulbright scholarship and was nominated for the Art House Texas Prize.
Salcido's series, Aliento A Tequila, was published in the December 2013 issue of Texas Monthly, where Atotonilco el Alto was first shown to a larger audience. The iconic landscape photograph, Atotonilco el Alto, from the series, was inducted into the National Art Heritage Collection of Mexico and permanently resides at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City. The image was selected for the 2017 Texas Book Festival poster and presented by former First Lady Laura Bush in Dallas, TX.
Published by Trinity University Press, Joel Salcido's book, The Spirit of Tequila, is a photographic and autobiographical celebration of Mexican culture, tradition, and the art of tequila-making. Atotonilco el Alto is beautifully illustrated in the book. His fine art photographs are now in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos. Recently, both the Federal Reserve Bank in El Paso, Texas, and the University of Texas at San Antonio have acquired his work for their respective fine art collections.
As a staff photographer at the El Paso Times, he documented the Tarahumara Indigenous tribe of Mexico, covered the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, and traveled extensively in Latin America for USA Today. In 1991, he resigned as Photo Editor of the El Paso Times to pursue a freelance and fine art career. Eight years later, he moved his family to Spain to work on his year-long project, Spain: Millennium Past. The artist was a finalist for the Fulbright scholarship and was nominated for the Art House Texas Prize.
Salcido's series, Aliento A Tequila, was published in the December 2013 issue of Texas Monthly, where Atotonilco el Alto was first shown to a larger audience. The iconic landscape photograph, Atotonilco el Alto, from the series, was inducted into the National Art Heritage Collection of Mexico and permanently resides at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City. The image was selected for the 2017 Texas Book Festival poster and presented by former First Lady Laura Bush in Dallas, TX.
Published by Trinity University Press, Joel Salcido's book, The Spirit of Tequila, is a photographic and autobiographical celebration of Mexican culture, tradition, and the art of tequila-making. Atotonilco el Alto is beautifully illustrated in the book. His fine art photographs are now in the permanent collections of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos. Recently, both the Federal Reserve Bank in El Paso, Texas, and the University of Texas at San Antonio have acquired his work for their respective fine art collections.
