Asor

by Graciela Iturbide (Photographer), Simon Johnston (Editor)

200 Steidl With secrets drawn from her archive. Graciela Iturbide creates a curious world in which the human subjects we encounter in her widely-known portraits are absent. In asor. the human subject is the reader alone. dream borne . on a journey in which all places remain nameless. time cannot be ascertained. and the course is lost to the imagination. Loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Iturbide constructs her intimate and contemporary extension of Lewis Carrolls classic tale without words. making equal use of the narrative and compositional elements of her photographs to startle her readers with visual riddles and quick shifts of perspective. To accompany a reader along this unlikely journey are six electroacoustic works by composer Manuel Rocha Iturbide. These works. composed over a fifteen year period from 1990 to 2005 ...

200 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in many major museum collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The J. Paul Getty Museum.