Images of the Spirit

Writer and scholar Alfredo Lopez Austin is an anthropologist studying Latin American cultures. In his series of letters to Iturbide, which form the poetic Epilogue to Images of the Spirit, he envisions her "on a promontory set over the world in such a way as to see from one ocean to the other, to approach the vault of heaven, and to surpass the artificial boundaries:" Reflecting on the breadth of her expansive, insightful mind while invoking many narrative voices and identities drawn from Mexico's richly vibrant mythologies, Lopez Austin shows us how Iturbide's photographs mirror the artist herself. Through his writing, Iturbide is revealed as observer, searcher, affirmer.