Grete Stern ( May 9,1904 – December 24, 1999) German (later nationalized Argentine) photographer. Along with her husband (Horacio Coppola), they were active agents of modernization process of visual arts in Argentina. Stern and Coppola ran a studio together from 1937 to 1941. Around the time of the divorce, Stern began exhibiting individually, including internationally, starting in the 1970s, returning particularly to her native country to exhibit in 1975 and 1978. She provided photographs for magazine and served for a stint as a photography teacher in Resistencia at the National University of the Northeast in 1959. From 1956 until 1970, she was in charge of organizing and directing the photography workshop of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. In 1985, she retired from photography, but lived another 14 years until 1999, dying in Buenos Aires at the age of 95
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