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I think that any photographer is an investigator. Photography is a pretext to know the world, to know life. To know yourself.
Graciela Iturbide
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Graciela Iturbide
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 16
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Mexico City
Mexico
Graciela Iturbinde
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