Senderos de Vida
2024
Paths of Life is a recapitulation of unpublished photographs captured by Flor Garduño during her 45-year career. This book reveals discoveries Flor found in her personal archive, together with recent photographs whose paths surprisingly coincide. It is a unique window into her beginnings, her explorations in different corners of the world, and the experiences that have shaped her artistic perspective. In seven distinct chapters, we become witnesses to the legacy of an era through customs, myths, and archetypes that unite us as human beings. With these extraordinary images, Garduño shares her gift for telling highly empathetic visual stories that have left an indelible mark on photography in Mexico and the world.
Trilogy
2014
It is a magical land that where Flor Garduño moves, holding her camera. A land reminiscent of Mexico, where she was born; a land pervaded by myths and legends; a land plunged into a voluptuous and sensual nature, kissed by the sun of those exotic and ancestral places.
Trilogy is a collection of the works Garduño realized throughout many years of photography between Mexico and Europe. Her great and magnificent visual production develops through a “dance” in three movements. The overture is Bestiarium, in which real and fictional images of enchanted animals come to life as metaphors of our dreams and passions. Then we have Fantastic women, a celebration of the feminine universe and of the mystery and sensuality that spring from the female body. The dance ends with Silent natures, where Garduño contemplates wilderness because, quoting the photographer herself, “whenever I think of Silent natures, I must confess that I created these photographs for myself, to maintain my playful spirit throughout all these years.
Product details: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Contrasto; 1St Edition edition (April 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8869652777
ISBN-13: 978-8869652776
Product dimensions: 0.9 x 12.6 x 12.3 inches
Inner Light
2002
Still Lifes and Nudes. Sensual and symbolic female nudes and still lives form this collection of reproduced tritone images by Mexican photographer Flor Garduno. In contrast to Garduno’s first three books, which were essentially diaries of her travels throughout the Americas, this is a diary of her personal, interior landscape. The images were all taken in and around her homes in Mexico and Switzerland. Always using natural light, she has created a series of photographs that bring a magical lyricism to black-and-white photography. An introduction by Veronica Volkow, the Mexican poet, plays up the metaphoric qualities in Garduno’s images, exploring the resonance of the word “flower”, in Flor’s name and in her sensual imagery.
Product details: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Contrasto; 1St Edition edition (April 19, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 8869652777
ISBN-13: 978-8869652776
Product dimensions: 0.9 x 12.6 x 12.3 inches
Witnesses of Time
2001
Witnesses of Time collects Flor Garduño’s remarkable pictures where the sacred and symbolic are revealed in daily life. In remote corners of Central and South America, native Indians continue to practice ancient rituals as they have for millennia. Their rites embody a distinct worldview and a unique perception of time. The result of travels through ritual towns in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, Witnesses of Time encompasses landscape, architecture, ceremonies, tableaux and individual portraits. Figures in Garduño’s evocative images become clues to the spirituality of the Indian cosmos. Landforms hint at other as unseen orders of being. Common acts take on an extra dimension through their ritual associations, in communities that still retain their ties to the environment. Complemented by an introduction by the renowned Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes, Witnesses of Time is a tribute to a fascinating way of life, portrayed with an unparalleled grace.
Product details: Hardcover, 72 photos, 166 pages
Publisher: Aperture, 2001; 2nd edition (June 15, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0893819190
ISBN-13: 978-0893819194
Product dimensions: 11.8 x 11.8 in (30 x 30 cm)
Mesteños
1994
Mesteños is the spanish word for homeless or untamed. The spaniards called the freely roaming horses “Mesteños”. From this word the north americans coined the term “Mustang” meaning feralised horses of the north american pariries.
Product details: 177 pages
Publisher: Verlag Schweizer Kavallerist, Ptäffikon, 1994
Language: Spanish, English, French
ISBN-10: 3-908224-00-4
ISBN-13: 978-3-908224-00-4
Bestiarium
1987
We all enter this world with an animal brother, a dual creature, a twin in the forest.
A newborn baby’s destiny is linked throughout its lifetime with either a gentle beast or fierce wild animal. It could be an eagle, tiger, fox, coyote, puma, bull, tapir, sparrow hawk or deer. These are good twins that enable your child to look into their eyes or name itself with their secret words. However, this animal may also be a horse, wildcat, rabbit, dog, cat, rooster, turkey or goose, which are not so good even though we can live with them in the world over time. Or it could be even worse: a hen, chicken, vulture or pig! Heaven forbid!
Eraclio Zepeda
Published by: Posts by: U. Bär Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland, Edizione Argentum, Stabio, Switzerland. 1987.
Magia
1985
Magia del juego eterno is the first book published by Flor. The book contains her first important works like “Agua”. The book is out of stock and available only through antiquarian resources.
Product details: Softcover, 78 photos, 87 pages
Publisher: Publicación Guchachi’ Reza A.C., Juchitán, Oaxaca, 1985
Language: Spanish
ISBN-10: Registro GRE-840329
Product dimensions: 8.7 x 11.4 in (22 x 26 cm)Published by: Posts by: U. Bär Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland, Edizione Argentum, Stabio, Switzerland. 1987.