Publisher/Twin Palms Publishers

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"Pájaros" is a collection of works by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (1942-). Having studied under Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Iturbide has spent over half a century photographing indigenous peoples, festivals, religions, and nature throughout Mexico. While meticulously documenting reality, she has established a global reputation as a photographer whose poetic photographic expression evokes mythology, views on life and death, and a sense of fantasy. In 2021, she won the Hasselblad International Photography Award and is known as a leading figure in Latin American photography. This book is a representative collection of her works, compiled around the theme of "birds," which she has been photographing for many years. It includes diverse images of birds in black and white, including not only live birds, but also stuffed birds, birds in cages, dead birds, and birds coexisting with humans. Birds have long been considered beings that connect heaven and earth, and symbols of messengers of the soul, but in this book, themes such as life and death, freedom and bondage, sacredness and everyday life are quietly interwoven with this symbolism. Iturbide's signature serene imagery and rich tonality elevate familiar birds into mystical figures, leaving a profound and lingering impression that blurs the lines between reality and fantasy.