For Graciela Iturbide, the camera is a pretext for understanding the world. Her principal concern has been the photographic investigation of Mexico—her own cultural environment—through black-and-white images of landscapes and their inhabitants, abstract compositions, and self-portraits. Whether photographing indigenous communities in her native country, cholos in Los Angeles, Frida Kahlo’s house, or the landscape of […]
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California Girls
This playlist is dedicated to the women artists who come from and create within the nation’s most populous state—artists who use their work to manifest new ideas and expand the borders of creativity.
by Art21August 9, 2017 10 videos • 1:14:51 total runtime
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In the Studio: David Leggett
David Leggett uses humor and levity to invite viewers into difficult conversations.