Among Stern’s most significant artistic accomplishments are her Sueños, or Dreams, a series of photomontages that she contributed weekly from 1948 to 1951 to the Argentine women’s magazine Idilio. Stern’s works accompanied a column titled El psicoanálisis le ayudará (Psychoanalysis will help you), which reflected the considerable interest in psychoanalysis in the period immediately following World War II. Edited by sociologist Gino Germani under the pen name Richard Rest, it provided psychoanalytic views on the dreams of working-class women, many of whom were inspired to seek upward mobility by the glamour and populist ideology of President Juan Domingo Perón and his second wife, Eva Perón.
Publication excerpt from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019)
Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, two pioneering photographers who started a photography studio together in Berlin from 1929-1933.
In 1933 they emigrated, had separate careers, and married other people. There was a recent documentary made about them; it seems they reunited in their old age. Grete passed away in 1999 and and Ellen in 2004.
