Grete Stern’s Rediscovered Dreams

In 1948, the avant-garde photographer Grete Stern, a German Jew living in Buenos Aires, was hired by Idilio, a popular women’s magazine, to illustrate a weekly column called Psychoanalysis Will Help You. The column solicited readers’ dreams, and thousands responded—a majority with nightmares. Anxiety, domination, and entrapment were common themes.