The Mexico B&W Series
No. 1 - Maria Sabina
This rare and historically significant photograph is a portrait of Mexico's most famous "curandera" (shaman) blessing a handful of psilocybin mushrooms in preparation for an occult ceremony. It was taken 1972 at her home on a mountain top near the town of Huautla de Jimenez in the Mazateca mountains of Oaxaca.
It was shot on Kodak Tri-X Pan pushed to 800 ASA. I was shooting for a Newseek journalist at the time working on a story about the "magic mushrooms".
It is the first of a series of my historic black and white photography of Mexico in the '60s and '70s.
As it must, it measures 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" and is a signed and numbered edition.
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