# Photographic

**Author:** Isabel Quintero
**Grade range:** Grades 4–10
**First published:** 2021
**Page count:** 99
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9781606068144`
**ISBN-10:** `1606068148`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/photographic-the-life-of-graciela-iturbide
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

This young adult graphic biography follows the life of one of Mexico’s greatest living photographers, Graciela Iturbide, as she makes her way from Mexico City to the Sonoran Desert, Los Angeles, India, and beyond. The kaleidoscopic narrative offers deep insight into the path of a young photographer from an early tragedy to great fame. Renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was born in Mexico City in 1942, the oldest of thirteen children. When tragedy strikes Graciela as a young mother, she turns to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Graciela embarks on a photographic journey that takes her throughout her native Mexico, from the Sonora Desert to Juchitán to Frida Kahlo’s bathroom, and then to the United States, India, and beyond. Photographic is a symbolic, poet

## Where this book is assigned

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