I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I never use a telephoto lens. I need to be close to people. I need their complicity; I need them to be aware that… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world. — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
I do not understand what makes me take a picture. Cartier-Bresson talks about the decisive moment, the necessity to function with lynx eyes and… — Graciela Iturbide Copy Share Image
