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.

Ilse Bing

 Ilse Bing (1899-1998) was a German Avante-Garde artist and commerical photographer. Bing produced her most well-known work during the interwar era. 

-Bing’s photgraphic style was dubbed “documentary humanism”. 

-In 1959, Bing stated that she “had said all that she had to say with photography” and thereafter chose to focus on drawing and poetry. 

“Her friendship with figures associated with the Bauhaus, including the architect Martin Stam and the photographer Florence Henri, as well as her acquaintance with André Kertész in Paris, encouraged her tendency toward the formalist techniques of modernist photography. Like László Moholy-Nagy, the self taught Bing turned her photographs upside-down and sideways to assess their compositional relationships; like Kurt Schwitters, she was attracted to the banal details of urban living--torn tram tickets, gate latches, and other apparently minor objects.”

       - International Centre of Photography

“I felt that the camera grew an extension of my eyes and moved with me.”

-Isle Bing, (quote pulled from MOMA article on her).

Laundry, Frankfurt, 1929. Gelatin silver print.

Self-Portrait in Mirrors, 1931. Gelatin silver print.

French Cancan, Moulin Rouge, Paris, 1931. Gelatin silver print. 

Germaine Krull

 Germaine Krull (1897-1985) was a Dutch-German photographer and a pioneer of the avante-garde art movement, photomontage, the photographic book, and photojournalism. 

-Krull was part of the Neue Frau (New woman): a feminist ideal that emerged in the late 1800s with influence far into the 1900s. The term was used initially by writer Sarah Grand to describe independent women seeking radical change, later evolving as a general term for the feminist and independent woman. 

Germaine worked as a photographer for the French magazine VU, capturing images from infrastructure to intimate portraits.

The Hands of Actress Jenny Burnay, c.1930. Gelatin silver print.

Untitled, 1923-24. Gelatin silver print.

Advertisement for fashion designer Paul Poiret. 1926. Gelatin silver print, 8 5/8 by 6 1/4 inches.

Iness Rychlik

 Iness Rychlik is a Polish-born artist based in the UK. Rychlik uses her skin condition to imprint patterns/writing/drawings into her skin for her photography. Her art is centred around self-portraits which explore themes of pain, solitude, and vulnerability. Alongside her photographic practice Rychlik has also directed several short films. 

Iness Rychlik, Crooked Little House (2023)

Iness Rychlik, Beyond Repair (2023)

Iness Rychlik, Crumbs (2022)