Women Photojournalists - Trials and Triumphs
Grete Stern was born May 9, 1904 in Germany. At a young age, she shown an interest in photography. She decided to study graphic design in school. Eventually she moved to Berlin, where she met Otto Umbehr, who directed her to take photography lesson with Walter Peterhans, who was a well-known photographer. After years of working in London, she married and moved to Argentine with her husband. In 1948, she began working for a women’s magazine to express the dreams that the readers of the magazines would submit. She created one hundred and fifty photomontages that portrayed what the readers were expressing. Since the submissions were mainly by women, her photos were showing the women’s oppression and submission in the society of Argentine. Her main goal was to express how the women felt through her pictures she presented. Self- portrait by Grete Stern Date taken 1935 Principle #1: What feelings does this image create? ...