Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 539

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 14,000 - $ 18,000
GARDUÑO, FLOR (1957- )
Portfolio entitled "Witnesses of Time." With 10 lyrical photographs of Ecuador, Guatemala and Bolivia. Platinum-palladium prints, image size 9 1/4x7 inches (24.1x17.8 cm.), sheet size 15x19 inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), with Garduno's signature, title, and edition notations "15/40," in pencil, on verso, and with portfolio and printer's stamps. Each photograph is housed in the original printed wrappers enclosure, with a debossed credit. Folio-size stamped buckram clamshell box; contents loose as issued. 1988-1990; printed 1993
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"Canasta de Luz [Basket of Light], 1989" "El Rayo [The Lightning], 1990" "Marcos y Simona [Marcos and Simona], 1990" "Taita Marcos [Taita Marcos], 1988" "Confrade [Member of the Confraternity], 1989" "Virgen [Virgin], 1990" "Reina [Queen], 1989" "Sixto [Sixto], 1990" "El Angel Herido [Wounded Angel], 1989" "Polo seran, mas polvo enamorado [Dust they become, but dust in love], 1990."


Garduño''s studies of indigenous people convey a deep spirituality that seamlessly interweaves the ancient and contemporary. Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes writes of her work, "Witnesses of time, yes, time as survival, but time as promise too, time as restitution but also as inevitable loss. Survival, promise, restitution and loss which the Indians of America conserve for all of us who have been propelled into the race of progress; slaves of an untouchable future who forget ourselves as we have forgotten others. Witnesses, guardians, sanctuaries of another time, of another way of life, of lost signs and of realities that have become invisible before our blind eyes, Flor Garduño''s portraits deserve the poignant definition of time that Socrates gave us: The moving portrait of eternity." Garduño''s vision is enduring and speaks to the tradition of humanist photography.