In the face of Angelita Torres two thin lines: a dotted and a continuous almost perfect in its outline, serene eyes separated the rest of the face. A line of tiny dots and a circle around you, you decorate the tip of the nose. A little further down, at the height of the nostrils, other straight lines and shorter They stress cheekbones. Other lines, painted but not this time caused by the sun, life and history of women look out onto his forehead, sides of eyes and sides of the nose to the corners of his mouth, as well as the texture of the chin, that I can not tell if it is being portrayed tight because it causes some tension. By including face painting and clothing that bears can assure you it is a woman belonging to the group Comca'ac (Seri) located in Punta Chueca and Desemboque the coast of Sonora.
meeting in a following photo shows a woman wearing face painting and dress very similar, only this time it's not a woman Comca'ac, but the photographer Graciela Iturbide, who in 1981 traveled to the area for photos of her book Those who live in sand, which was part of the photographic books published by the then-FONAPAS INI. This image was what initially sparked my interest to write about this series what was intended Graciela to dress like a woman Comca'ac ? "Trying to understand or be sympathetic with the woman portrayed and community from the parameters of femininity and beauty Comca'ac ? Angelita "He proposed to give Grace her paintings and clothing? These questions swirled in my head and thus came the need to consult the series to see if this was response to my questions. Then resorted to the photographic archive of the CDI, where they are if not entirely, at least most of the negatives in this series ( http://69.170.138.130/ ~ media / cdi / login . php ) To my surprise the show was not ordered so I started to try to rebuild.
and found another image of the series that Angelita and Linda pose together to be portrayed. The proximity with which they are sitting made me think that among them was a certain friendship and complicity. The comparison I was inevitable; made up and dressed in the same way seemed to be the same age, between 35 and 40, both with long dark hair is combed in the middle game, yet, features and skin color of both women are clearly different. Finally, I find a big difference in their eyes, Graciela who looks confident and relaxed looking directly at the camera while Angelita less stiffly relaxed and he looks at the picture and who portrays? The look and attitude of the two suggests to me that maybe it was Luis Barjau, Grace's partner, who accompanied him on the trip.
Angelita and Linda leave the place in which they were portrayed, did Angelita's house? and I find possible second part of the series. On the one hand portraits of Angelita with a black veil in full sun and on the other hand portraits were undoubtedly Graciela taken the same day. Looking in detail both sets of pictures I find many similarities that I find fascinating: Angelita holding transparent black veil covering her head with both hands, placing Graciela on her head a white scarf with a similar stance and both arms portrayed in a cut to the waist. Angelita another wall, in profile with her veil and her arms crossed staring at the horizon does not seem aware of being photographed, Graciela profile with your scarf looks at the camera and a couple of his fingers that look in the lower left corner, confirm that although we do not see your arms crossed. Angelita with her veil in front, Graciela with her head scarf. Angelita in right profile with narrowed eyes, Graciela in left profile with his eyes half closed. Angelita corita load a head, Graciela carries a kind of small stands bare in the head. Angelita are photos of Grace, again I wonder who Graciela portrait? If, as was previously assumed Luis Barjau, it does call my attention to the coincidence of these shots Does Grace and Luis were so close as to unconsciously take the same type of situation? Was it a deliberate action? Assume that could take Angelita could be another option, given that the review found a picture where a woman appears Comca'ac portraying Grace camera when they turn Grace is taking on women . Personally, although I am strongly inclined to think in the latter case where Angelita is the photographer who portrays Grace, I find it interesting how the two women, regardless of culture, had a vision nearly identical to portray each other.
I choose another image where the two women return to be portrayed, Angelita Graciela left and right with the same proximity to the one shown above, but this time when full-length portrait, is warns Angelita is taller and thinner Graciela. We also see that they are in a desert climate and landscape on the sand bare foot looks Angelita, probably quite used to the heat. Behind them, perhaps the white house where they were previously portrayed Angelita while makeup. This time confirmed my suspicion that the picture who is Luis because then find an image on the same stage where Angelita is portrayed with Luis Among them are a significant distance that shows a very different from the two women. As a woman I know ethnologist provided within indigenous communities have access to female spaces and makes the acceptance in the male, so it is not surprising that distance even though the face of Luis also have been painted in the style Comca'ac . A tender tone is added to this picture by the presence of a dog-eared white spotted, the three look Graciela unison.
Last picture brings me back to the hypothesis Angelita as a photographer, is that in this image are Grace and Luis Who else was Angelita on the scene could haberles portrayed? The horizon dropped slightly in contrast to the horizon of the above photo taken by Grace, and the court reveal that dog was not someone looking to photographic technique, but in a rather spontaneous.
conclude that Grace and Luis have been portrayed by Angelita, she and the dog they look, are not Comca'ac like them, even to dress and paint the way they do, but are not total strangers, they were taught to paint, provided their clothes and then take a series of portraits. In the left portray Grace painted and dressed like Comca'ac temporarily took the place of Angelita, a woman Comca'ac , and Angelita to portray the couple of city folk, took Grace site, the photographer. At least one picture the roles been reversed, the usually observed (ethnic groups) look to those commonly observed them (photographers), but dressed as if they were always watched, so seductive fail me think about how others can be seen in absence of themselves.
Valeria Vega
March 2010.
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