No. 10: Celestial Bodies

Grete Stern was commissioned to create the Dreams photomontages as photographic illustrations for a weekly column, “Psychoanalysis Will Help You,” in Idilio (Idyll), a pioneering Argentinian women’s magazine. Its readers submitted written descriptions of their dreams which were analyzed by two male intellectuals and illustrated by Stern. While incorporating some suggestions from two men, Stern often subverted their interpretations, substituting her own proto-feminist reactions to the dream narratives.

A vertically oriented gelatin silver print and photomontage reveals a horizontal, translucent cutout of a nude woman with light skin tone floating centrally and facing our right. Overlapping her against a dark, cloudy background are spheres of various sizes and textures. In the lower left, a large globe displays a map of the world. Smaller textured spheres and soft clouds drift around the figure, creating a layered, celestial composition of gray tones and paper cutouts.

No. 10: Celestial Bodies

1949, printed probably 1970s

Grete Stern

(German, 1904–1999)

Argentina

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