Graciela Iturbide: Juchitan.(Brief article)(Book review)

Graciela Iturbide: Juchitan GRACIELA ITURBIDE, ESSAY BY JUDITH KELLER. Getty, $29.95 (75p) ISBN 978-0-89236-905-8

In this slender volume to accompany a J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition, photographer Iturbide captures Mexico's matriarchal Zapotec village, Juchitan, from 1979 to 1988. (Those unfamiliar with Iturbide or this indigenous Oaxaca State culture may recognize these women's elaborate lace costume and headdresses from Frida Kahlo's paintings.) With closeup views of a closed society, Iturbide's work is photography at its most intimate. Shot from below, images of women in festival dress and others such as the famous Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas, a portrait of a …