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| ARTIST | Josephine Sacabo | |||||||
| Josephine Sacabo lives and works mostly in New Orleans where she has been strongly influenced by the unique ambiance of the city. She was reared in Laredo, Texas—in the Mexican ranchero culture about which Juan Rulfo wrote—and educated at Bard College in New York. Prior to New Orleans she lived extensively in France and England, where her earlier work, done in the photo-journalistic tradition, was influenced by Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In the last few years, she has come away from photo-journalism and now creates in a very subjective, introspective style. She uses poetry as the genesis for her imagery, and it is lyric poets she lists as her most important influences—particularly Rilke, Baudelaire, Pedro Salinas, Vincente Huidobro and Juan Rulfo. Josephine’s photography has toured in numerous solo exhibitions around the world, and her work is collected by The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris) and the Art Institute of Chicago, to name a few. The Wittliff Gallery holds over 50 of Sacabo's photographs, and the sixth publication of the Wittliff Gallery Series is Pedro Paramo, illustrated by Josephine Sacabo, published by the University of Texas Press in 1998. To read the essay, "Sacabo & Rulfo" by Elena Poniatowska, click here, also available in Spanish. |
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