Mary McCarter- Weekly Artist Post 2

 Graciela Iturbide

  Iturbide is working in black and white, with a mild sepia tone in the first two photos. Her subject matter is landscape or foe landscape in the second picture because it is really just a picture of a picture. The third has children in it, but the photo seems to be more about the dust and its surrounding landscape. She has taken all of her photos from further away, maybe 10 or so feet.

All three of these images are landscape or a mock of that the first being a structural moon in a sort of dry and dessert like place a very open landscape with no mountains or valleys however it seems closed in and captured having the moon as the center focus. It also looks as though it could move with the clouds because the directions of both the moon and clouds. The second may be wanting some sort of salvation, it is a picture of a palm treed beach scene, but is clearly unreachable. The third may show how people may be affected by nature, the children are running around kicking up this dust as perhaps a game, but in their surroundings it is very desolate somewhere where you might not find children normally.

I have always loved landscape pictures I think nature has so much pure beauty that only can be found in nature itself. The second photo is a little disjointed with the others but I almost like that more than having three of the same type of photo (all real landscapes), these pictures show her heritage being from Mexico City, it is a very dry place and these photos reflect that sort of feel. I feel as though all three are connected by the way the foreground looks, in the first and third both have the same sort of pattern like marks on the ground, in the second though the foreground is some sort of concrete within the photo the water looks very similar to the ground in the two other photos. These photos seem really cohesive and I enjoyed the connective nature of all her photos.