Video: Stunning collages of classic photography by Greta Stern
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Today, in the era of universal computerization and the availability of a variety of photo editors, many of us have forgotten what happened to photography when this diversity did not exist yet. It turns out that even then there were masters who were able to make very unusual pictures even from the point of view of a modern sophisticated viewer. Among such masters, Greta Stern can be noted - the cult photographer and innovator of photography, the author of stunning surreal collages, which brought her worldwide fame.
Grete Stern was born in Germany in the city of Elberfeld in 1904. From 1923 to 1925, Stern studied graphics at an art school in Stuttgart, but after a while, inspired by the works of Edward Weston and Paul Outerbridge - American avant-garde photographers, she decided to devote herself to photography. Soon she moved to Berlin, where she began to take lessons from the famous Walter Peterhans, a photographer and teacher of the Bauhaus school. This is how her long career in art begins.
After some time, she, together with a classmate, opens a photography and drawing studio - "Ringl + Pit". Things are going well - advertising photography and portrait photography are becoming their main income. In 1933, Greta and her friend even won first prize at the International Exhibition in Brussels for a kind of collage poster advertising a hair care product. Later there was the famous Bauhaus Higher School of Construction and Artistic Design. Alas, Stern managed to work in it for only six months - she was forced to emigrate to Argentina with her husband, fleeing Nazism.
Stern worked in different genres - she was interested in everything - from photo essay to advertising photography. However, collages for Idilio magazine, where she illustrated the section "Psychoanalysis will help you", brought her true popularity. She faced an unusual task: she had to create photo collages, which were based on the dreams of the magazine's readers. There were enough ideas - young women literally bombarded the editorial office with letters.
Stern's heroines are women, often frustrated and cornered, seeking their place in a changing and cruel world. Her works are witty, unusual and very frank, especially for that era. They still look relevant today, despite the fact that more than seventy years have passed since their creation.
The art of photo collage thrives today. For example, the Spanish photo artist Antonio Mora creates amazing mystical collages as part of his Dream Portraits project.
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