Juchitán de las mujeres 1979-1989. Graciela Iturbide

Mexico-based Graciela Iturbide, a 2008 Hasselblad Award winner, is one of Latin America´s most influential photographers. Juchitan de Las Mujeres is a reprisal of her 1989 masterwork, comprising ten years of travels along the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, near Southern Oaxaca, where she lived among the pre-Columbian Zapotec culture indigenous to the remote region. With new design and excellent production quality, this volume, which features many previously unpublished photographs, is a visual record of the daily life of an ancient culture in flux, through portraits of its people and glimpses into the Zapotecs´ attitudes toward sexuality, ritual, death and the role of women. Revealing some of the finest examples of Iturbide´s enduring themes--the clash between urban and rural life, ancient and modern life--it includes a foreword by celebrated Mexican novelist, Mario Bellatín.