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Flor Garduño: Witnesses of Time
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On her first professional assignment for the department of Public Education, Flor Garduño was asked to photograph rural communities in remote villages across México for school textbooks. This project inspired her best-known series, ‘Witnesses of Time’ (1992), where she travelled through México, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Garduño celebrated the imaginative power of native cultures in South and Central America: their rituals, folklore and daily life. The series became one of the most important projects of Garduño’s career.
Flor Garduño
Trenza (Braid), Ecuador, 1991
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Emblema, México, 1987
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Virgen, Bolivia, 1990
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La Mujer, México, 1987
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Milluni, Bolivia, 1990
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Torito, Guatemala, 1989
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Magueyes, México, 1986
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Reyes de Bastos, México, 1981
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Cofrade, Guatemala, 1989, 1989
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Tornado, Bolivia, 1990
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La Malinche, México, 1990
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Musico en la Nada, Bolivia, 1990
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Ofrenda de Maiz, Guatemala, 1989
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Marcos y Simona, Bolivia, 1990
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La Giganta, Guatemala, 1989
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Erupción, Guatemala, 1989
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Alongside the publication of the book in 1992, ‘Witnesses of Time’ was exhibited the following year at the Bradford Museum in London. The series has received international acclaim, earning the Kodak Critics’ Photographic Prize (1992) and the Queen Elizabeth Award (1993), with special recognition from the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation (1994). The work has been exhibited internationally—from Italy to Chicago—and is held in prestigious collections like the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musée de l’Élysée in Switzerland.
FeaturedFlor Garduño
The ArtistFlor Garduño (b. 1957) is one of México’s leading photographers, whose work is inspired by the people, landscape, literature and art of her native country. Born in México City, Garduño studied visual art at the Antigua Academia de San Carlos, where she was taught by Hungarian photographer, Kati Horna, who had a lasting influence on her work. Upon graduating, she assisted Manuel Álvarez Bravo, México’s most celebrated photographer of the 20th-century, who taught her many of the formal techniques of the medium.
