Espiritu Santo (Marilyn)
/Graciela Iturbide
1996
Mexican, b. 1942
Photogravure on paper
Graphicstudio Subscription Purchase through the Kent Harrison Memorial Acquisition Fund
Polk Museum of Art Permanent Collection 1997.8.5a-b
Can you recognize the figure represented in the top half of this photograph? If so, who is she? (Hint: the title of this work will give you a good clue.) Notice also the gestures of the figures in the lower half of the image. What are they doing? What might this signify? In envisioning your story about the figures in this photograph, take into account that it was taken in Mexico in 1996 and that the blond figure hovering in an almost ghostly manner over the seen died in 1962.