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Authors, works and languages of the image
Graciela Iturbide
El Gallo, Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1986
"El Gallo, Juchitán, Oaxaca", 1986. © Graciela Iturbide.
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Introduction
This celebrated image is part of a vast and profound visual and ethno-anthropological research project that the artist conducted for a decade in the Zapotec community of Juchitán. The work defies the conventions of traditional reportage, fusing the raw realism of Mexican rural life with a lyrical and symbolic breath of extraordinary power.
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