Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas

Graciela Iturbide

1996

Mexican, b. 1942
Photogravure on paper
Museum Purchase through the General Acquisition Fund
Polk Museum of Art Permanent Collection 1996.4

In this photograph by one of Mexico’s most revered photographers, we are presented with a figure wearing a most extraordinary headpiece. A glance at the work’s title will reveal what sits upon her head, but can you come up with a story about this woman, her life, and her striking reptilian “attire”?

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