Graciela Iturbide Mexican, b. 1942
Rosario, Cristina y Liza, White Fence, East Los Ángeles, 1986
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print
14 x 11 in
35.6 x 27.9 cm
35.6 x 27.9 cm
In her White Fence series, Graciela Iturbide portrays members of the Mexican American community of East Los Angeles, including a group of mostly deaf women who communicated through sign language....
In her White Fence series, Graciela Iturbide portrays members of the Mexican American community of East Los Angeles, including a group of mostly deaf women who communicated through sign language. Gesture becomes language, transforming silence into a form of expression and resistance. In this photograph, Rosario, Cristina, and Lisa pose with assertive gazes, their hands forming “1 W F” — White Fence is #1. The gesture conveys both identity and solidarity, reimagining gang symbolism through female agency. Iturbide’s image turns portraiture into a dialogue between body and camera, where gesture speaks louder than words.
Provenance
Graciela Iturbide's StudioExhibitions
Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY; curator: Carlos Gollonet, 2025 (catalogue)Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias, Ruiz Healy Art, New York, NY, 2025 (catalogue)
Picturing the Border, Cleveland Museum of Art; curator: Nadiah Rivera Fellah, 2024 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France; curators: Alexis Fabry and Marie Perennès, 2022 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2016 (catalogue)
Graciela Iturbide, Museo Amparo, Puebla, México, 2012 (catalogue)
Eyes to Fly With, Wittliff Gallery, Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2006 (catalogue)
Images of the Spirit, Throckmorton Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY; curator: Michael E. Hoffman, 2006 (catalogue)
Images of the Spirit:
Photographs of Graciela Iturbide, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, 1998 (catalogue)Literature
Jansen, Charlotte, and Graciela Iturbide. “Graciela Iturbide on the Democratic Nature of Photography.” Frieze Magazine, May 5, 2022 (illustrated)Publications
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play. Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE and Editorial RM, 2025, p. 201 (illustrated)Exhibition catalogue, Romo, Ricardo, PhD., Graciela Iturbide: Las Californias. New York: Ruiz Healy Art, 2025 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Rivera Fellah, Nadiah. Picturing the Border, Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2024, p. 94 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela and Alfonso Morales Carrillo. White Fence. Barcelona | Mexico City: RM, 2024, p. 21 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela. White Fence. Mexico City: Editorial RM, 2023, p. 82 (illustrated)
Exhibition catalogue, Graciela Iturbide, Heliotropo 37, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France, 2022, p. 267 (illustrated)
Baranda, María. Graciela Iturbide: A Lens to See. San Antonio, TX: Ruiz-Healy Art, 2016, p. 22 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela. Graciela Iturbide, Puebla: Museo Amparo and Editorial RM, 2012, p. 26 (illustrated)
Daho, Marta.Graciela Iturbide, Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2012, p.189 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela, Fabienne Bradu and Alejandro Castellanos. Eyes to Fly With: Portraits, Self-portraits, and Other Photographs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006, p. 123 (illustrated)
Iturbide, Graciela, Alfredo López Austin and Roberto Tejada. Images of the Spirit, New York: Aperture, 1996, p. 89 (illustrated)
1
of
22
