"From pieces such as Our Lady of the Iguanas, Juchitán, Oaxaca (1979) to Rosario and Boo Boo in Their Home, East L.A. (1986), we see Iturbide become one with her subjects, somehow transcending her role as photographer and entering into a relationship with everything her camera captures. “The graphic novel honors a provocative life by taking a provocative form." The result is a book that expertly combines various aspects to become something utterly unique." "Quintero and Peña strike a good compromise, featuring many of Iturbide’s photographs as a complement to the biography, but without being dependent on them. "Quintero and Peña’s biography of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide is far more than an account of her life. “Striking black and white illustrations. A powerful homage to the five-decade evolution of an artist still working-and still evolving-today.” VERDICT Quintero and Peña have set a new standard in artist biographies. The importance of being seen, specifically in regard to indigenous communities in Mexico and Mexican Americans in the United States, as a narrative thread will resonate strongly with readers. "Mixing original illustrations, first-person prose, and lyrical interludes with gorgeous reproductions of photographer Graciela Iturbide’s work, Quintero and Peña patiently reveal their subject’s many angles, producing a “kaleidoscopic unraveling” of the artists… Teens will come away with an evolved sense of how to look at a creator’s life and work and how to think critically about art as a process.
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