El Baño de Frida Kahlo. Graciela Iturbide. Demerol. Mario Bellatín
Graciela Iturbide was invited to participate in the registry of the opening and was able to capture Frida’s domestic spaces with a fine eye. Surprisingly, she began to discover another Frida and to interpret her objects —prosthetics, corsets, medicines, stuffed animals, posters of Stalin—, capturing fleeting and unrepeatable moments. She decided to organized an exhibition of the material she gathered, which was held in the Mexico City airport.
In the manner of a visual poetics, the photographer creates still lifes from what she found. These twenty-eight images evoke Frida’s interior world and her dominating personality. We see her private intimacy laid bare without limits or conventionalism. We see close up objects as intimate and unknown as the earrings Picasso gave Frida as a gift, and the notebooks, writings, and books —with feathers or dried flowers placed to mark a significant page— which allow us a glimpse of another version of the artist.
Published by RM in Mexico, 2010
India México.
Vientos paralelos
Photographs by Graciela Iturbide, Raghu Rai y Sebastião Salgado
Introduction text by Jean-Claude Carrière
The project from which this book emerges - conceived by Natalia Gil and later exhibited at the Old College of San Ildefonso and in Monterrey, Brazil, Chile and Spain - shows the imaginary dialogue between the work of three photographers: the Hindu Raghu Rai, the Mexican Graciela Iturbide and the Brazilian Sebastião Salgado. The splendid photographs of these three masters show the similarities and particularities of two peoples that seem geographically and culturally distant, with their human conglomerates, their urban landscapes and their daily life.
2002 Quorum prize
First edition, 2002
Printed in duotones
192 pp.
Bound in cloth with dust jacket,
33 x 24.5 cm
ISBN 968-5011-22-2
Co-publication with
Turner / Ocean
Photographs by Daniela Rossell
Book reviewed and published in: The Photobook: A History Volume I: Nov 2004
by Gerry Badger and Martin Parr
"The following images show real scenarios. The subjects photographed are representing themselves. Any resemblance to reality is not a coincidence. " This is the warning that can be read in the first pages of this book. This is the work of Daniela Rossell, who presents images of the contrasting and eccentric Mexican high society, anonymous characters in their own spaces, between kitsch and absurdity, luxury and opulence. Rich and famous is a detailed and demanding description of a Mexican reality.
First edition, 2002
Printed in color
160 pp.
Bound in paperback,
31.6 x 22 m
ISBN 970-651-620-4
Special edition for
Ocean / Turner
Learning less
The leading line of the exhibition that gives rise to this book is the meeting of three personal ways in which art can approach photography. The three artists who join this project -Gabriel Orozco, Richard Wentworth and Fischli & Weiss- find in this technique a means to portray their street findings within the urban landscape, its surroundings and its objects.
Prize a! design
First edition, 2000
Printed in color
120 pp.
Bound in cardboard,
24.5 x 19 cm
ISBN 970-92451-0-4
Special edition for
Conaculta / Center of the
Image / Museum of Arts /
University of Guadalajara
Cien años, cien días
Texts by Octavio Paz y Carlos Monsiváis
One hundred years after the birth of the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, this book contains a selection of one hundred of his most emblematic images chosen by himself and accompanied by the pen of his own friends: Texts by Edward Weston, Langston Hughes, Luis Cardoza and Aragón, André Breton, Diego Rivera, Xavier Villaurrutia, Juan García Ponce and Francisco Toledo, among others.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo is an indispensable figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, a friend of artists and intellectuals in a century of contrasts. Here are the images who speak, images of the everyday that leave wonder in the open.
Quorum Prize 2002
First edition, 2001
Printed on tritons
245 pp.
Bound in cloth
with dust jacket,
33 x 31 cm
ISBN 84-7506-510-4
Special edition for
Conaculta-inba / Fundación Televisa / Fomento Cultural Banamex / Turner
México visto por sus niños. An amazing project by Fondo para Niños de México
Texts by Diego Gomez-Pickering
Prologue by Jorge F. Hernández
Fondo para Niños de México is a non-governmental organization that promotes the development of children living in poverty. This publication, illustrated with photographs taken by children from deprived areas of Mexico, offers the point of view of the youngest to show the needs and life of a vulnerable sector of the country.
First edition, 2006
Printed in color
160 pp.
Hardback, and hardcover
29 x 21.5 m
ISBN 968-5011-68-0
Special edition for Fund for Children of Mexico
Texts by Antonio Tabucchi, Susan Sontag, Nadine Gordimer, Jean-Claude Carrière, Álvaro Mutis, among others.
Photography by Hippolyte Bayard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, among others
Eighty-one renowned writers participate in this project with an unpublished text about some of the photographs of Fundación Televisa's collections. The result is a very heterogeneous book, with images ranging from one of the first photographic shots, to others that became twentieth-century icons and contemporary works. In the same way, the texts go from story to essay, and even poetry, from some that give a story to the image, to others whose critical view affects the very act of capturing the moment, the decisive moment.
First edition, 2005
Printed in color
196 pp.
Bound in silk,
33.5 x 29.5 cm
ISBN 968-5953-03-1
Special edition for Fundación Televisa
Cuaderno de viaje / Journey notebook
This book presents 31 photographs of the artist, taken in places as diverse as Florida and Louisiana, United States; England; India, and the desert of Sonora and Oaxaca, in Mexico.
Pemium quorum 2000
First edition, 1999
Printed in duotones
80 pp.
Bound in paperback,
21.5 x 16.5 cm
isbn 970-18-2979-4
Special edition for
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
160 years of Photography in Mexico
Texts by Alejandro Castellanos, Estela Treviño and Patricia Mendoza, among others
The research that gives rise to this publication arises from the need to make available to the public a sample of the photographic production of our country and a recount of its protagonists.
Today, more than 160 years after the birth of photography, this book evokes that history with the images of more than 610 authors, from pioneers to contemporaries. This work originates in the Archive of the Image Center, which houses nearly eight hundred creative and research projects.
First edition, 2004
Printed in color
704 pp.
Bound in cloth
with dust jacket,
27.5 x 22 cm
ISBN 970-18-6876-5
Special edition for
Center of the Image /
Ocean /
Televisa Foundation
Photographic archive Casasola México: 1900-1940
Curated by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio,
Pete Hamill, Sergio Raúl Arroyo y Rosa Casanova
The Casasola archive is composed of almost five hundred thousand photographs, which offer a wide horizon of images and visual proposals and that account for the interest, unprecedented in its time, for collecting photographs, a novelty that is one of the contributions by Agustín Víctor Casasola to the patrimony of Mexico. This volume gives an account of the conformation of this historical collection, and presents a wide sample of the photographs belonging to its archive.
Quorum Prize 2002
First edition, 2002
Printed in duotones
219 pp.
Bound in cloth with dust jacket,
32 x 24 cm
ISBN 970-651-695-6
Special edition for
Conaculta-inah / Turner / Sanborns
Disciple of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa, Héctor García is considered one of the most important Mexican photographers. His work has been recognized with the National Prize for Science and Arts in 2002, and he has received the National Journalism Prize three times. Francisco Montellano says of him: "Witness and protagonist throughout his life of countless big and small events, the Héctor García archive is full of themes and derivations of the history of Mexico in the last 60 years". This edition features 150 photographs, and includes an introduction by the curator of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and an anthology of critical texts on the work of the artist.
🏆 Quorum prize 2002
Prologue by Alejandro González Iñárritu. Text by Antonio Saborit
Gabriel Figueroa has been the most important film photographer that Mexico has given, and his work was considered by the muralists themselves as a "moving" representative of this artistic movement.
This vast project, coordinated by Figueroa's son, Gabriel Figueroa Flores, includes both personal and professional graphic material, from his first photographs -of which the original negatives are conserved- to portraits of actors, artists and writers of the era, like Marilyn Monroe or Juan Rulfo, as well as a selection of digitally restored frames.
History of Luis Buñuel's film, premiered in 1950 in Mexico City and named part of the documentary archive Memory of the World of UNESCO, and on which essays, critiques and reflections by authors as well known as Julio Cortázar have been written, Octavio Paz and Claude Mauriac, to name a few. This social document about Mexico presents for the first time the complete script of the film illustrated with photograms, the history of how the film was made and who participated in it (such as Gabriel Figueroa, Max Aub and Rodolfo Halffter), the count of the other end that was not seen and the impact that this film had in its time.
Book of the film by Carlos Cuarón
Published in Mexico
Gabriela Savedra and Gabriel Rozinski
Published by Televisa, 2010
Since the 1980s, graffiti has emerged in Mexico City from the United States after passing through Tijuana and Guadalajara as one of the most constant but little-explored manifestations of culture. This practice is carried out by an extensive community, initially underground, which soon becomes an urban phenomenon of enormous dimensions.
In this publication, the author analyzes the origins of graffiti as well as the complex socio-cultural relationships that surround it. The research, carried out through a meticulous fieldwork, shows the work done by graffiti artists and their crews in just over thirty years, traces a line from the origins of graffiti to our days and interviews 21 protagonists to bring the reader to the world of graffiti. A glossary of terms used by graffiti artists is included.
Profusely illustrated with a wide selection of graffiti (styles, signatures, messages and pieces), this publication has counted on the support of HUMO, one of its maximum exponents, as an advisor.
Published in Mexico, 2016
