White Fence (In Spanish)

Graciela Iturbide, a Mexican photographer, is known for her exceptional career in documentary and fine art photography. With a poetic and insightful approach, she skillfully captures the essence of Mexican life and culture. Through the compelling narration of Alfonso Morales, we delve into Graciela Iturbide's fascination with capturing the life of the Latino street gang "White Fence" on the "Eastside" of Los Angeles. She explores the complexities of this community, offering a powerful reflection on identity and migration. "White Fence" offers an unprecedented visual journey through Graciela Iturbide's travels, showcasing previously unpublished images recovered from her archive, accompanied by iconography and documents that will help better understand her story and expand our knowledge. On May 2, 1986, the images that shaped the book "A Day in the Life of America" ​​were made. Graciela Iturbide, who was part of the team of photographers who recorded daily life in different places in the United States that day, contributed to that time capsule a portrait she took in an apartment in the Boyle Heights neighborhood, in East Los Angeles, California. There she was welcomed by a group of Mexican-Americans, mostly deaf women, who had ties to the White Fence gang. That first meeting led to the establishment of friendly relations and the composition of a photographic story that can be described as the intermittent chronicle of a day that lasted thirty-three years, from 1986 to 2019. The present edition, composed of two volumes, offers one of the portraits that Graciela Iturbide made of her Los Angeles hosts, their surroundings, moves and ramifications, and an essay by Alfonso Morales Carrillo that describes the development of that photographic series and the historical background to which it ultimately refers: the formation and persistence of communities with Mexican ancestry north of the Rio Grande.