From 1948 to 1951, Stern contributed photomontages, which she called Sueños (Dreams), to the Argentine women’s magazine Idilio. These works illustrated a weekly column titled “Psychoanalysis Will Help You,” in which readers submitted their dreams for interpretation by a sociologist and psychologist writing together under a pseudonym. To make a photomontage, Stern arranged photographs—both found and those she took herself—into a composition. Sometimes she incorporated three-dimensional objects by placing them in front of an in-progress photomontage, then taking a photograph of the entire arrangement. The artist would often later rework her compositions, changing their format, orientation, or various other elements by cutting and pasting new imagery atop the works.
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