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Flor Garduño Los Limones, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Los Limones, Mexico
1998, printed later
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
16 x 20 inches
Flor Garduño Adela, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Adela, Mexico
2000
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Anemone, Suiza
Flor Garduño
Anemone, Suiza
2007, printed later
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed and titled on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Aparición, Mexico (Apparition)
Flor Garduño
Aparición, Mexico (Apparition)
1998
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Boa, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Boa, Mexico
1999
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Torsos, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Torsos, Mexico
1999
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Caballito Congelado, Suiza
Flor Garduño
Caballito Congelado, Suiza
1996, printed in 1998
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso. Printed by Garduño in 1998.
16 x 20 inches
Flor Garduño Cacao, Mexico (Cocoa)
Flor Garduño
Cacao, Mexico (Cocoa)
2000
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Edén, Suiza (Eden)
Flor Garduño
Edén, Suiza (Eden)
2001
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño El Mundo, Mexico (The World)
Flor Garduño
El mundo, Mexico (The World)
1998
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
16 x 20 inches
Flor Garduño Gatomonte, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Gatomonte, Mexico
1998, printed later
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed on verso.
16 x 20 inches
Flor Garduño Hoja Elegante, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Hoja Elegante, Mexico
1998, printed in 2007
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso. Printed by Garduño in 2007.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño La De Las Margaritas, Mexico (The One Of The Daisies)
Flor Garduño
La de las margaritas, Mexico (The one of the daisies)
1999
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño La Mano Mágica, Mexico (The Magic Hand)
Flor Garduño
La Mano Mágica, Mexico (The Magic Hand)
1999
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño La Nopala, Mexico
Flor Garduño
La nopala, Mexico
1998
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Libro Sabio, Suiza (Wise Book)
Flor Garduño
Libro sabio, Suiza (Wise Book)
1997
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
16 x 20 inches
Flor Garduño Magdalena, Mexico
Flor Garduño
Magdalena, Mexico
1999
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Moneda, Suiza (Coin)
Flor Garduño
Moneda, Suiza (Coin)
2001
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
20 x 16 inches
Flor Garduño Pez Espada, Mexico (Swordfish)
Flor Garduño
Pez espada, Mexico (Swordfish)
1998
Silver Gelatin Photograph
Signed, titled and dated on verso.
16 x 20 inches
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FLOR GARDUÑO
Flor Garduño is renowned as one of the most outstanding representatives of Latin American photography continuing the lineage of the poet-photographers that defined the medium during the 20th century. Instilled in Garduño from her formative years in Mexico is a belief that there is a delicate beauty and a primal quality within the simplest of things which she captures in her photographs. Her powerful compositions possess an aura of poetic metaphor. The images have enormous emotional strength imbued with regional symbols, as well as universal signs that touch all of humanity. A mysterious natural light envelops Garduño’s subjects creating a uniquely personal black and white ambiance that emphasizes the sacred aspects and beauty she reveals in familiar people and objects.
Garduño’s photographic subjects are well known to her and her imagery is steeped in nature and Mexican folklore. The bodies portrayed are personalized, the mythology shown is internalized. For Garduño, the uniqueness of the bodies is their beauty. In the introduction by Veronica Volklow to Garduño’s monograph “Inner Life,” she notes, “Garduño’s images seem to have been stolen, not from the street, the countryside, the studio, but from a deeply intimate dimension…Each body is like a star. It radiates a beauty that emerges from an overflowing richness.” The pictures in their strength, fragility, and beauty are ultimately studies of humanity.
Flor Garduño had the privilege to study under Hungarian photographer Kati Horna. She was the darkroom assistant to perhaps Mexico’s best-known photographer, Manuel Alvarez Bravo. These experiences greatly influenced not only Garduño’s aesthetics, but also her technical aptitude. Garduño’s work photographing through remote areas of Mexico and its indigenous people would raise her interest and sensitivity to her Mexican origins. Her work is multi-faceted including folklore, landscapes, portraiture, nudes, and still lifes. Garduño’s work has appeared in a number of international exhibitions and in the collections of such respected institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, The Israel Museum of Jerusalem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum Ludwig of Cologne, and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum. Her refined and sophisticated eye as well as perfect control of technical methods creates emotionally powerful and poetically moving photographs.
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Flor Garduño is renowned as one of the most outstanding representatives of Latin American photography continuing the lineage of the poet-photographers that defined the medium during the 20th century. Her powerful compositions possess an aura of poetic metaphor. The...
