Thursday, October 5, 2023

Grete Stern

 Grete Stern (1904 - 1999) was a German-Argentine photographer (worked in Argentina, born in Germany) who helped modernize the visual arts in Argentina.

-Studied in Europe at the Bauhaus School where she met and later married married the Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola. When the Nazi party began to gain power in Germany the couple left for London and then Argentina.

-portraiture and collage. Approaching the typical photographic subjects in unconventional ways. 

Dream No. 7: Who Will She Be?, 1949. Photomontage.

Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home, 1949. Photomontage.

Hat and Gloves, 1930. 

Autorretrato (Self Portrait), 1943.