1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1904–1999 · ARGENTINA
Grete Stern
Surreal photomontages and modernist portraits.
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1999
- Country
- Argentina
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1948Los Sueños (for Idilio)
- 1943Self-Portrait
WHY THEY MATTER
Bauhaus student who co-founded the acclaimed Berlin studio ringl+pit; with Horacio Coppola staged what was described as the first modern photography exhibition in Argentina (1935).
THE LIFE
Stern was born in Elberfeld, Germany, and studied with Walter Peterhans and at the Bauhaus. In 1930 she and Ellen Auerbach founded ringl+pit, an acclaimed Berlin photography and design studio. She left Nazi Germany in 1933 and in 1935 travelled to Argentina with her husband Horacio Coppola, where they mounted a pioneering exhibition at Sur magazine. From 1948 she made the photomontage series Los Suenos for the women's magazine Idilio, quietly feminist illustrations of readers' dreams.
Also born in 1900–1929
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Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
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Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
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Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
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Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
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Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia