Published to accompany the first US museum exhibition of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, this book explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the foremost practitioners of avant-garde photography in Europe and Latin America. The book traces their artistic development from the late 1920s, when Stern established a pioneering commercial studio, ringl + pit, with her friend Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach, and Coppola began groundbreaking experimentations with photography in his native Argentina, to their joint studies at the Bauhaus and travels through Europe in the early 1930s, through the mid-1950s, by which time they had firmly established the foundations of modern photography in Buenos Aires.
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- Photographer against the grain: through the lens of Grete Stern / Roxana Marcoci -- Grete Stern plates -- What the eye does not see: the photographic vision of Horacio Coppola / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- Horacio Coppola plates -- Common convictions: Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern in Buenos Aires, 1935-1943 / Jodi Roberts -- Selected artists' texts and writings about the artists / compiled and translated by Rachel Kaplan -- Selected bibliography / compiled by Rachel Kaplan.