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Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide wins Spain's Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts
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FILE - Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide poses for a picture in front of her archived negatives during an interview with the Associated Press at her home in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. - photo by AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, file
MADRID (AP) — Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain's 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts for her images that for decades have captured "the social reality not only of Mexico, but also of many places,” prize organizers said Friday. Iturbide became famous internationally for her sparse, cinematic and mostly black-and-white photographs of Indigenous societies in Mexico, with a particular focus on the role of women in them. In “Our Lady of the Iguanas,” one of Iturbide's best-known images published in 1979, an Indigenous Zapotec woman in southern Mexico carries live iguanas on her head that form the shape of a crown.