The opening night of “Día de Muertos – Ten Years of Workshops with Ernesto Bazan”, showing at Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, in Oaxaca Mexico …

So I am just concluding my trip to Oaxaca. Getting away from a daily routine and fully immersing myself in my photography is very cathartic, and what better place to enjoy the sun. The Álvarez Bravo Center is showing Graciela Iturbide’s “El baño de Frida” – somehow more lyrical than “Frida’s bathroom.” Iturbide in characteristic pallet provokes a mystical and ethereal atmosphere, even accounting for the unexpected portrait of Stalin. A show I really enjoyed. In a different vein, the magnificent reference library recently relocated from the Center to the Institute of Graphic Arts is fortunate to own at least two highly collectible books, Garry Winogrand’s 1964, and Walker Evans’ American Photographs. Shot on a Guggenheim grant, 1964 is out of print (due to a single print run of 5000 copies before the publisher went bust), and will set you back $500 on Amazon. Winogrand was famously prolific (leaving behind thousands of exposed but undeveloped films at his death), but to my eye he excelled in 1964 – and I would love to add this posthumously compiled book to my collection.